2020年英语中考短文填空专练

lot all around it ) , he ___5___ oil （石油） . He ___6___
money for his travels and for his zoo , and a little oil
would buy ___7___ water for a long time , but he knows
has travelled all over the world ___3___ for animals for
his own zoo . He writes books about his travels , and
about his wonderful ___4___ . The money for his books
’t . I
(4) ,
they madefun of （取笑） him , for he was the s
(5)
in the class . He had no idea about what to do . So Bruce
n
(6) some help from his best friend , Dick .
and six boys in the family . On a January day in 1760 ,
another baby boy ___3___ . They boy ’ s mother and his
father ___4___ the boy a name
— Benjamin .
(6) doing that .
Of course , as we know , dogs can be trained to
look after a house
, and soldiers in both old and
modern t
(7) have u
(8) geese to give
warning （警报） by m
he has not once been on l
(2) , but he is never
lonely . He is a strong swimmer . In fact
（实际上） ,
he could swim before he could walk . When he wants to
play with his f
English people think that ___8___ Chinese end our ___9___ to friends all of a sudden . They ___10___ begin to show that they want to go 15 ___11 20 minutes before they leave their ___12___ house . And they do this two or three ___13___ within 20 minutes .
Now , in his l
(7) back to Bruce , Dick gave
him two pieces of advice
It is important ___14___ people to understand
each other . Here is a ___15___ ,
“ When in Rome , do
as the Romans do . ”
（三）
need , animal , I , put , make , except , find , end ,
look , since , little , enough Let me tell you a story .
A good friend of ___1___ lives
with six hundred
animals on an island . Ever ___2___ he left school , he
(1) of
people . They say that at a circus
（杂技场）， for
example , we may see elephants , monkeys , dogs and other
animals doing q
(2) skillful （ 熟练的） things .
(1) school in Richmond
at all . As all the o
(2) students were from the
same junior middle school , they
g
(3) on well with each other . Bruce tried his
best to be friendly , but they didn
Ming has lived all his life on a wide r
(1) in
China . His home is a large house-boat with a roof , one
of hundreds that move up and down . In about six years
二 . 阅读 下面的短文，根据每个空格中所给的词首字母填入 适当的词，使短文意思完整。
（一）
Can animals be made to work for people ? Some
scientists think that one day animals maybe trained （ 训
练） to do a number of simple jobs i
Chinese people are ___4___ to know the fact that an Englishman ___5___ stop to talk and shake hands with his friend ___6___ the street . They just say hello ___7___ each other and then pass on .
(9) a lot of noise when an
enemy comes near . And also it may be possible to train
animals to work in families or f
(Leabharlann Baidu0) .
（二）
Here ’ s story about Ming’ s life on the waters .
In school Benjamin had been good at ___7___ and writing but not good at maths . He read all of ___8___ father ’ s books . And whenever （每当） he had a little money , he bought a book with it . He liked books . They told him how to do ___9___ . At that time he invented the paddles （脚蹼） for ___10___ .
(9)
with his mother . The shops , of course , are boats very
like his o
(10) .
（三）
Last week Bruce wrote to Dick , telling him that
he wasn’ t enjoying the n
英语中考短文填空专练
（一）
call , swim , anything , clever , bear ,
can , his , give , girl , something , read , take
Many years ago , there was a family ___1___
Franklin . They lived in Boston . There were five ___2___
Perhaps you have seen them on the television or in a
film . If you watch closely , you may find that the
trainer （驯兽员） always g
(3) the animal some
sugar
o
that if he tells anybody
else about it , it will be the
___8___ of his zoo and his life
’ s work .
So I think he will not tell anybody ___9___ you and meabout what he found — because oil and water can ’ t ___10___ together . Oil may bring greater trouble to his animals than not having enough water . Do you think so ?
called cormorants do the fishing for him .
Rings （圈）
have been put around the birds ’n
(6) so that they
cannot eat the fish they catch . They have been taught
（二）
say , surprise , do , in , friend , to , visits , we ,
usual , or , welcome , time , for , but , ideas Manners are important in every country ,
___1___ people have different ___2___ about their manners . What is good in one country may not be ___3___ in another .
helps him to pay for all the animal food . My friend told
me that when he was looking for water last week (There
is not enough water on the island , though there is a
to b
(7) the fish to people . And then people
reward （奖励） them with a fine big fish as soon as their
work is f
(8) . Ming loves watching the
cormorants , but better still he likes going s
(3) , he just swims across to their
boats or asks them to v
(4) him .
Ming ’ s father is a fisherman but he never
u
(5) a line or a net （网） . Great black birds
(4) a piece of fruit as a reward （报酬） . The
scientists say that many d
(5) animals may be
trained to do a lot of simple things if they know they
will get a reward f
Benjamin was the ___5___ of all the children . He could read when he was five and he ___6___ write by the time he was seven . When he was eight he was sent to school .