2018年广东中考英语短文填空

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A young man and an old man were waiting for a bus a t a bus __1_. They sat next to each other. “What’s that in your bags?〞asked the young man, pointing to a big bag beside the old man.

“Gold, nothing but gold.〞Answered the old man.

The young man could hardly __2_ his own ears, “So much gold? My God! How I wish to be able to get so much gold.〞Then he began to think about __3_to get the gold.

The old man looked tired and sleepy. “Are you sleepy, sir?〞asked the young man. “Then you’d better lie down on the chair and have a good __4_. Don’t worry about the bus. I’ll __5_ you up in time.〞

“All right. It’s very __6_ of you, young man.〞The old man lay down and soon fell asleep. The young man took the big bag gently. But when he was going to run away, he found a corner of his fur coat was under the old man’s body. Several times he tried to pull __7_ out, but he couldn’t. At last he took off his coat and went away __8_ the bag. The young man ran out of the station as __9_ as possible. When he reached a safe place, he stopped and quickly opened the bag.

To his __10, there was nothing but a lot of small stones in it. He hurried to the station at once. But when he got there, he found the old man was gone.

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One morning, a blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said, “I am blind, please __1__me.〞

There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was __2__ by. He took out a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the __3__. He then took the sign, turned it around, and _4___ some words on it. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by could __5__ the words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving __6__ to the blind boy. The afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see __7__things were. The boy recognizedhis footsteps and asked, “ Are you the one __8__ changed my sign in the morning? What did you write?〞

The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said, but in a __9__ way.〞What he had written was, “ Today is a beautiful day, __10__ I cannot see it.〞

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I was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare and the tortoise〔乌龟〕.At the end I said, “Son, remember. Be slow and steady〔镇定〕, and that will __1__ the race. Don’t you think there’s something to learn __2__ the tortoise?〞Sonny opened his eyes wide, “Do you mean next time _3___ I’m entering for the 60-meter race, I should wish that Billy, Tony and Sandy would all fall asleep halfway?〞

I was shocked, “But the tortoise didn’t __4__ that the hare would fall asleep!〞