短文听写填空练习20篇及答案

短文听写填空练习20篇

Exercise 1

Complaining about faulty goods or bad services is never easy. But if something you have brought is faulty or does not do what was (1) ____________ for it, you are not asking for a(2)___________to get it put right.

Complaints should be made to a (3) ___________ person. Go back to the shop where you bought the goods, taking with you any (4) ____________ you may have. In a small store the (5) ____________may also be the owner so you can complain directly .In a chain store, ask the manager. If you telephone, ask the name of the person who (6)

____________ your enquiry, (7) ___________ you may never find out who dealt with the complaint later. If you do not want to do it in (8) _____________, write a letter. Stick to the facts and keep a（9）_____________of what you write. At this stage you should give any receipt numbers, but you should not need to give receipt or other papers to (10)

___________ you bought the article

Exercise 2

It is impossible to say that any one man invented the automobile. Many individuals living and working in different countries and at different times (1) ____________to its development. Many of the (2) ____________ that went into the creation of the automobile were small in themselves. But (3) ____________they were important. Here are two examples ―Carriage is running at a speed of 8 to 9 miles an hour‖ It was almost (4 ) ____________ of in those days. According to automobile historians, this was the first (5) ____________ use of mechanical power to move a (6) ____________. After its first run, the machine reportedly burned up while the inventor and his friends were celebrating its (7) ________________ at a pub.

Henry Ford is (8) __________________ the father of modern automobiles mass production. His famous Model-T car, because of its low price, made it possible to produce cars on a large ___________ and his ____________ made it accessible to ordinary people.

Exercise 3

Nowadays few of us read books after we leave school.

This is rather（1）___________, for one should know that books are no less necessary to one’s（2）__________ life than fresh air is to one’s（3）___________ life. From good reading we can（4）____________ companionship, experience and instruction. A good book is our faithful friend. It can increase our contentment when we are（5）___________ and happy, and（6）__________ our pain when we are sad or lonely. Books can also offer us a wide （7）_________ of experience. Few of us can travel far from home or live long over 100, but all of us can live many lives through the pages of books. What’s（8）___________, reading books can increase our intellectual ability,（9）____________ our minds and make us wise.

With the coming of TV, books are no longer read as widely as they once were. However, nothing can（10）__________ the role that books play in our lives.

Exercise 4

Believe it or not, 43,000,000 Americans are gardening. That is about one in six. Gardeners, of course, come in many (1) ___________. Not (2) ____________, most of them are people who live in the(3) ____________, and enjoy planting flowers, or maybe a small vegetable garden.

The (4) ___________ age of gardeners in America is about 45 years old; they usually fall somewhere in the middle class. But the fastest growing groups are city (5)__________. Urban(6) ___________ are finding ways of gardening even in their (7)__________ areas. Many go to large(8) ____________ garden, as a place(9) __________ by the city for gardening, and you can actually ranch your own plot.

Still other people use their balconies or roof tops,(10) ___________ they can find the space to plant small patches of green.