2017中考英语短文填词、选词填空专题含答案

well , soft, sec ond ‘better , may , stron gly, afraid, sand , stay up, if, now, houseWe can 'stop an earthquake（地震）,but we can do things to make sure they don 'tdestroy（毁坏）whole cities. First, it is not a 1 . ___________ idea to build houses along lines where 2. ___________ of the earth 'plates（板块）join together. Second,if you think there 3. __________ be an earthquake, it is better to build houses on rocks , not on 4. ___________ . Third, youmust make the houses as 5. _________ a s possible. Weak buildi ngs will fall dow n in an earthquake, but strong ones may6. ________ . .Scien tists are 7. _________ that one day an eve n bigger earthquake will hit the part around San Fran cisco（旧金山）.They call it 'The Big One ".However, people today are still building more 8. ______________ . The population in andaround San Fran cisco is 9. _________ ten times more tha n it was in 1906. This means that 10. ____________ there isano ther earthquake, a great many houses and buildi ngs will be destroyed.forget, bring , mend, beside, luck, pick, same, differently, I , every , stop, eachMr. Brow n had an umbrella shop in a small tow n. People sometimes 1 ______ him broke n umbrellas, and the nhe took them to a big shop in London. They were 2 __________ there.One day Mr. Brow n went to London by train. He 3 ______ to take an umbrella with him that day. Sitti ng in frontof him was a man with an umbrella sta nding 4 ______ the seat. Whe n the train arrived in London, Mr. Brow n 5 up the umbrella as he ofte n did duri ng his jour ney by train. Just as he was gett ing off, he was 6 by the man. He said angrily, “That ' s ! " M rBrown ' s face turned red and he gave it back to the man atonce.When Mr Brown got to the big shop, the shopkeeper had got his six umbrellas ready. After a good look at 8 of them, he said, _______ “ You' ve mended them very well. ”In the after noon he got i nto the train aga in. The 9 ________ man was in the same seat. He looked at Mr Brow nand his six umbrellas, “ You' 10e had a day, ” he said.sec on d, light travels about 300,000 kilometers, but sound travels only 340 meters. You can get some idea of this differe nee by 3. _____________ the start of a running match. If you stand far away from the starter（发令员）,you can see smoke4. ________ f rom his gun5. ________ t he sound reaches your ears.The fast speed of light produces some stra nge facts. The n earest star is 6. ______ far away that light which you cansee from it toni ght started to travel to you four years 7. _____________ at a speed of n early two milli on kilometers everyminute. The light from some of tonight 'started on 8. _________ journey towards you even before you were born.So, if we want to be honest（诚实）,we 9. ________ s ay , 'The stars are shining brightly tonight. ” We have to say,'The stars look nice. They were 10. ________ four years ago but their light has just reached our earth. ”四other, move, eno ugh, find ,desert, make, use , ano ther, friend , carry , trouble, friendYou may think there is nothing but sand in the desert of the world, but it is not true. In the desert we can 1. ______ston es. We can see hills, too. There is a little rain in the 2. _______ , but it is not 3. _____ for most pla nts.The an imals are 4. ________ to the desert people in many ways. The desert people eat the meat and drink the milk ofthe animals. They use their skins to 5. _______ shoes, water bags and even tents（帐篷）.They use the camels（骆驼）for 6._______ t hi ngs.The people of the desert have to keep 7. ______ from places to place. They must always look for grass or desertplants for their animals. They usually live in the tents. When there is mo more food for their animals, they take down their ten ts, put them on the camels and move to 8. ______________ place. The desert people are very 9. ______ . No man in thedesert would ever refuse to help the people in 10. ________ and give them food and water.五how, they ,win ter, summer spe nd, care , dance , take, show , ope n , only, goodThe world of the out-of doors is full of secrets. And 1. _______ are so in terest ing that quite a lot of people arebusy study ing them. All around us are birds, ani mals, trees and flowers. The facts about 2. ______ they live and groware as in terest ing as anything could be.Do you know that one of the great preside nts of the Un ited States 3 ______ hours and hours study ing birds? Abus in essma n who lives n ear New York City became so in terested in in sects（昆虫）that he bega n to collect them. He now has more tha n one thousa nd differe nt kinds 4. __________ k ept i n the glass boxes.Come the n with me, and I will help you find some of Nature 'secrets. Let us go quietly through the woods and fields. Here we shall find how a rabbit tells the other rabbits that there is dan ger. We shall follow a mother bear and her young ones as they search for food and get ready for 5. _______________________ sleep. We shall watch bees 6. ________ in the air to letother bees know where they can find food. I will 7.________ y ou many other in terest ing thin gs, but the 8. ______ t hingthat I can teach you is to keep your eyes and ears 9. ____________ when you go out of doors. Nature tells her secrets10. _______ to people who look and liste n carefully.two, sudde n , cold, teach, in surprise, Fren ch, hot, beard, photo, office, passport, ChinaMr Hill arrives at London Airport, at the end of a three-week holiday in 1. _______ . Usually he wears a beard（蓄着胡须）.Since it has been 2. ________ there, he has taken it off （剃掉）.But his passport photo shows him with his 3.An officer looks at the 4. _______ for a moment, and says , "Will you excuse me? Please sit down. I shan't keep youIon g." With this, he walks away, shows the photo to a sec ond 5. ______ , and says: "I know that face." The sec ond officerlooks at the 6. __________ a nd asks where Mr Hill has come from. When he hears that Mr Hill has arrived back fromParis, the 7. ______ officer smiles and says: "An Englishman with a beard stole a painting in Paris on Friday, And thatman looks just the kind of man..."8. _______ i t comes to the first officer who Mr Hill is. He retur ns to him, and asks: "Did you9. _______ at the No.2. High School?" When Mr Hill an swers, 10. _______ , that he did, the first officer smiles and says:"I thought so. I'm Jack Smith. You taught me Fren ch. You have n't cha nged a bit七how, much, safe, tha nk, play , be, invent , no, so , in terest, must , askThomas Edis on was a great America n 1. __________ . When he was a child, he was always 2. ________________ questi ons and trying out new ideas. No matter 3. ________ hard it was, he n ever gave up.Young Tom was in school for only three mon ths. His teacher did n 'u ndersta nd why he had 4. ___________ manystra nge questi ons. Most of them were not about his less ons. The teacher did n 'twa nt to teach Tom any 5. _______ . Heasked Tom's mother to take the boy home. Tom ' mother taught him to read and write, and she found him 6. ____________a very good pupil. He lear nt very fast and became very 7. _________ in scie nee.One day , he saw a little boy 8. __________ on the railway tracks at a station. A train was coming near quiclly, andthe boy was too frighte ned to move. Edis on rushed out and carried the boy to 9 . _______ . The boy 'father was so10. ______ that he taught Edis on to send messages by telegraph.八as, sleep,dream, like, again, about, think, must, wake up, quick, much ,why"Dreams （梦）may be more important than sleep. We all need to dream," some scientists say.Dreams take up about one quarter of our 1 . ________ t ime. People have several2. ________ each ni ght. Dreams are like short films. They are usually in colour. Some dreams are3. ________ o ld films.They come to us over and over 4. ________ . That may be because the dreamer is worryi ng about someth ing. Dream ingmay be a way of trying to find an an swer.Some people get new ideas 5. ________ their work from dreams. They may have bee n 6. _______ about their work allday. These thoughts can carry over into dreams.Sometimes we 7. ________ w ith a good feeli ng from a dream. But ofte n we can't remember the dream. Dreams can disappear （消失）8. ______ from memory （记忆）.Too much dream in g can be harmful （有害的）.The 9. ______ we sleep, the Ion ger we dream. The mi nd is hard atwork when we dream. That is 10. ________ we may have a long sleep and still wake up tired.九see, looked for, hunt , dog ,kill , wolf ,die , tear , remind , back , hunt , his, rememberMore tha n seve n hun dred years ago, the Prince of Wales had a very big and brave dog called Gelert.One day the Prince wan ted to go 1. ________ with his men. He told his 2. _________ t o stay at home and look afterhis baby son. The baby was in a woode n cradle （摇篮）,which was like a small bed.Whe n the Prince came back from hun ti ng, Gelert ran out to meet his master. He wagged his tail and jumped up to put his paws （前爪）on the Prin ce's chest. The n the Prince saw the blood on Gelert's jaws and head."What have you done?" the Prince said. He rushed into his house and 3. _______ his baby son. The cradle was lyingon its side on the floor. The clothes were torn and there was blood on them."So you have killed my son? "the Prince said an grily. "You un faithful dog!" He took out his sword （剑）and 4._______ the dog. Just as Gelert was 5. _________ , he man aged to bark. Then the Prince heard a baby call to the dog.The Prince ran out of the house and saw his son lying on the ground un hurt. Near him was a dead 6. __________ . Then the Prince knew that Gelert had defended （保卫）the baby and killed the wolf.The Prince ran 7. ________ into the house but he was too late. Gelert was dead. The Prince was very sad in deed. 8._______ ran down his face when he realized 'he had killed 9. _________ f aithful friend. The Prince carried the body of his brave dog to the top of a mountain and buried him there. After this, the Prince never smiled again. Every morning at dawn, he walked up the mountain and stood by the dog's grave for a few minu tes.If you go to Mount Snowdon in Wales, people will show you where Gelert is buried. There is a sign by his grave. It 10. people of a brave and faithful dog.十and ,receive , satellite , weather , change ,help, or , early , for, when, forecast , starSatellites Forecast the WeatherNow satellites are helping to forecast （预报）the weather. They are in space, and they can reach any part of the world. The 1. ___________ take pictures of the atmosphere （大气）,because this is where the weather forms （形成）.They send these pictures to the 2. ________ s tation. So the scientists there can see the weather of any part of the world and tell how theweather will cha nge.Today, n early five hun dred weather stati ons in sixty coun tries can 3. _________ satellite pictures. 4. _______ they receive the new pictures, they compare （比较）them with the earlier ones. Perhaps they may find that the clouds have 5. duri ng the last few hours. This may mean that the weather on the ground may soon cha nge, too .In their next weather 6. , they can tell people about it. So the weather satellites are of a great 7. ______________________________________ to the scie ntists atthe stati on. In the past they could forecast the weather for about 24 or 48 hours 8. ___________ . Now they can make good forecasts for three 9 __________ five days. Soon, perhaps, they may be able to forecast the weather 10. _____________ aweek or more ahead.十一have, study , happy ,leave, coffee, message, on , must , n ext ,arrive, go , sheCatherine was a famous writer of children's stories. She lived in a fine old house in a small town near London. Often she worked at home, in her quiet 1. _.L ong before her books became popular, she had tried to teach 2 _________how to use a computer. And now she typed （打字）all her stories on her computer. But sometimes she had to 3 ________the house to get some books from the library or have a meeti ng. She did n't like being away because she was worried about burglar （盗贼）.So she was very careful. Just before leaving, she always put a full cup of coffee on the writing desk, and left the radio play ing to make a burglar think some one 4 _______ b e at home.One day she came back after a day out, and found that there was someth ing differe nt in her house. There was onlya little 5. ________ lift in the cup, and the radio was off. But when she looked at her computer, she saw it was6. ________ , and some one had typed in a new story. She had no idea who had got in, or how, because none of the doorsor windows was broken. Then she sat down to read the story. To her surprise, it was a very good one. "I'll use it in my 7. —book!" she said 8 ________The n ext month she had to go to London. She put a cup of coffee and a plate of san dwiches on the desk. When she returned, the coffee and the san dwiches had 9. _______ She ran to the computer. This time there was on ly a 10. _______on the screen （屏幕）."IT'S NOT YOUR STORY.IT'S MINE!" it said.try, how, what, if, can, won derful , much, shop, glass , read, dow n, putTom lived a way from tow n. One day he went into tow n to buy someth ing in the shop, and after he bought 1. he wan ted, he went into a restaura nt and sat 2 . at the table. When he looked round, he saw some old people 3. eyeglasses on before 4. their books, so after lunch he went to a shop to buy 5._______ , too. He walked along the road, and soon found a 6. ________ .The man in the shop made him 7. _______ on a lot of glasses, but each time Tom said, "No, I can 'read withthese.”The man became 8 . _______ and more puzzled （困惑）.At last he said, 'Excuse me, but 9. ________ you readat all?”"No, I can't! ” Tom said, 10. _________ I can read, do you think I will come here to buy glasses? ”十三well, brother, on , ago , I , for , make , needn ', as , because , much, beforeIn my spare time, I paint desig ns on T-shirts. I got the idea two years 1 _______ for my 2 ________ birthday prese nt. The shop wan ted $ 20 for a special desig n _3 _______ a T-shirt, so I decided to do it _4__________ . I bought a white cott on T-shirt _5 _________ $6 and some pain ts, and I pain ted a lion on the front. My brother loved it!Pain ti ng T-shirts is great fun. You 6 _______ be a great artist, you can just paint shapes and lin es. The T-shirts arethe _7 _______ expensive part of my hobby. Also you have to use special fabric paints and you need to buy goodquality brushes.I love my hobby _8 __________ I can make T-shirts that no-one else has. I give a lot of them away 9prese nts to my family and frien ds. Sometimes, I sell them. Since I started, I 've 10 ______ about 60 T-shirts andeach one is differe nt.十四eat, around , be , of , amuse , difficult, differe nt , probable, gift, but, and, other,Have you ever been to Disneyland? For most of the kids 1 _______________ the world, this _2 ________ park is a fantastic place for them to have fun. When we _3 __________ young, we all have heard _4 ___________ Mickey Mouse, Sleeping beauty, Snow White and many Disney characters. Some of us 5 ______________ have seen them in cartoons. Actually, you can go to see them all in a theme park. Now, there are four _6 ________ Disn eyla nd amuseme nt parks all over the world. Two are in the Un ited States, one is in Tokyo, and the _1__________ i s in France. There are not only some amusement attractions there , _8 ________ also many specials withDisney characters. In Disneyland, you can have a lot of fun watching Disney movies, _________ 9_____ in Disney restaurants, and buying Disney 10 _________ .十五choose, across , n ever, thirst, n eed, time, play, on, exercises, photo, through differe neeDo you want to be healthier? Then go 1 ____________ the passage, and you may find it' easy to keep fit.1） Eat all kinds of foods, especially fruits and vegetables.You may have a favourite kind of food, but the best _2 __________ is to eat as many kinds as possible. If you eat3 ___________ foods, you're more likely to get the nutrients your body needs . Taste new foods that you 4tried before. Some foods, such as green vegetables, are very important. Have five servings（份）of fruits and three vegetables.2） Drink water and milk ofte n.When you are really _5 _________ , cold water is the No. 1 choice. Kids need calcium（钙）to grow strong, and milk isa great source of this mineral （矿物质）.How much do children _6 ______ ? About three glasses of milk every day.十二3）Limit scree n time.What' screen time? It'sthe -7_______ for watching TV , DVDs, and videos, 8 __________computer games, and using the computer. If you spe nd much time _9 ________ these activities, you may have less time left to take 10 _________ , such as play ing basketball, bicycli ng, and swim ming.十六although、call、first > go、riding、in、differe nt、shapes in side、real、relax、tow n、watch5 / 6rve just go back from my holiday !lt's the _71_holiday that my family have taken in these two years ,so we were_72_excited.My dad's sister lives in Guilin,so we stayed with her for two days and then we went to Yangshuo for a week.Ya ngshuo is such an attractive little_73_a nd there's so much to do!First we hired bicycles and _74_i nto the coun tryside to a place_75_ Moon Hill.Whe n we got there,we hiked all the way to the top and the views were beautiful .The Ian dscape around Yan gshuo is amaz in g.The mountains sta nd 76 a nd reach for thesky.That evening we went out on a boat on the Li River to _77_the fishermen using birds to catch fish.Those birds are so well train ed!The most exciting thing we did in the next few days was to go caving .There was a river in the cave so we could hear the sound of running water _78_we could n't always see it.Deep _79_the cave it was so dark that I could n't even see my hand in front of my face!To tell the truth,I felt quite_80_whe n I was in the ope n air aga in!十七（cook、dark、finish、high、lead、light > luck、map、sign、sure、surprise 、worry）It was already late whe n we started for the n ext tow n, which accord ing to the _1_was about fiftee n miles away on the other side of the hill.There we felt_2_that we would find a bed for the night.Soon _3_fell after we left the village,but 4,we met no one as we drove fast along the n arrow road that 5 to the hill.As our car climbed 6,it became colder and the rain bega n to fall,mak ing it difficult to see the road.After we had travelled for about twenty miles,there was still no _7_of the tow n which was marked on the map,we were begi nning to get _8_.The n,the car sudde nly stopped .A quick exam in ati on showed that we had used up the gas.Although we had little food with us,we diceded to spend the night in the car.Our meal was soon 9, and then I tried to go to sleep at once,but John,who was a poor sleeper,got out of the car after a few minutes and went for a walk up the hill.Soon he found,in the valley bellow,the _10_of the town we were look ing for.We at once pushed the car to the top of the hill.I n less tha n a quarter of an hour ,we were in the tow n.十八］（exercise big get whe n child size in side clear arrive outside what make）Dogs are very good pets.They are very frien dly to people and very beautiful,too.Most dogs get on well with 6 a nd their pare nts.Others are good watchdogs because they cry loudly whe n a stra nge pers on_7_When you buy a dog,a n importa nt thing to think about is its_8_--buy a small dog if your home is small and a _9_one if your is larger.Many people don't know -10_to feed their dogs.Dogs eat almost anything!They like meat,rice and lots of other thin gs.You can buy lots of food which is 11 for dogs in shops.D on't let your dog eat too much.Always leave some _12_water for your dog .It can_13_thirsty very quickly,especially in summer.Remember that dogs n eed 14.You should take it for a walk every day.D on't keep your dog 15 all day. 十九betwee n, how, truth, courage , cry, which, at once , he , that , stay , later , whatA father was really worried about his son, who was sixtee n years old but had no _ ▲ 86_ at all. So the father dto call on a monk （修道士）to train ▲ 87_child.The monk said to the boy's father, "You should leave your son alone here, I'll make him into a _ ▲ 88_ma nthree mon ths. However, you can't come to see him duri ng this period."Three mon ths_ ▲ 89_, the boy's father came. The monk arran ged a box match _ ▲ 90__the child and an experie need boxer. Each time the fighter struck the boy, he fell dow n, but _ ▲ 91_the boy stood up, and each time he、dow n aga in, the n the boy stood up aga in. After several times, the monk asked, "What do you think of your child?""▲ 92_ a shame （羞愧）!" the boy's father said. "I n ever thought he would be so easily kno cked dow n. I n eed n't havehim_ ▲ 93_here any Ion ger.""I am sorry ▲ 94 that's all you see. Don't you see that each time he falls dow n, he sta nds up aga in in stead ofThat's the kind of courage you wan ted him to have."一l.good 2.two 3. may 4.sand 5.strong 6. stay up 7. afraid 8.houses 9.now 10.if二l.brought 2.mended 3. forgot 4. beside 5.picked 6. stopped 7. mine 8.each 9. same 10. lucky 三l.faster 2.ln 3. watching 4. come 5. before 6. so 7. ago 8. its 9. cannot 10. shining四1.fi nd 2.desert 3.e no ugh eful 5.make 6. carry ing 7. movi ng 8. ano ther 9.frie ndly lO.trouble五 1.they 2. how 3. spe nt 4. carefully 5. win ter 6. dancing 7. show 8. best 9. ope n 10. only六 1.Fra nee 2.hot 3. beard 4. photo 5. office 6. passport 7. sec ond 8. Sudde nly 9. teach 10. in surprise七 1.i nven tor 2. ask ing 3.how 4.so 5. more 6.to be 7.i nterested 8.playi ng 9. safety 10.tha nkful八 1 .sleeping 2.dreams 3.like 4. again 5. about 6. thinking 7. wake up 8. quickly 9. more 10. why九 1.h un ti ng 2. dog 3. looked for 4,killed 5. dyi ng 6. wolf. 7. back 8.Tears 9. his10. remi nds十 1.satellites 2.weather 3.receive 4.When 5.changed 6. forecast 7. help 8.earlier 9. or 10. for十一 1.study 2. herself 3. leave 4. must 5. coffee 6. on 7. n ext 8. happily 9. gone 10. message 十二 1.what 2.down 3.put 4.reading 5.glasses 6. shop 7.try 8.more 9.can 10. If十三 1.ago 2. brother ' 3son 4. myself 5.for 6. needn ' t7. most 8. because 9. as 10. made十四 1.aro und 2. amuseme nt 3. were 4. of 5. probably 6. differe nt 7. other 8. but 9. eat ing 10.gifts 十五 1.through 2. choice 3. differe nt 4. n ever 5. thirsty 6. n eed 7. time 8. play ing 9. on 10. exercise卜六first really tow n went riding called in differe nt shapes watch although in side relaxed。