1、学优中考网 2012 中考英语短文综合填空实践演练（教师版 1）短文综合填空实战演练Passage 1Our world is g 1 smaller and smaller. We can fly a 2 the world in less than fifty hours. The newest planes go six hundred miles an hour. And we are now making planes that are e 3 faster.O 4 September 20, 1519. Magellan left Spain w 5 five ships and
2、240 men. They were the first to m 6 the trip on the sea. It t 7 them more than two years by ship. Magellan himself was killed in an island. More than two years I 8 , on December 21, 1521, one of the five ships with only 31 men came b 9 to Spain.They started off from Spain and returned to Spain 2 yea
3、rs later. So they proved(证明) the world was r 10 .1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Passage 2Tom was a poor boy, he make a living b 1 cleaning leather(皮) shoes for others in the street. Tom was also a clever boy.One day, a very rich man with the name Miser appeared in front of Tom. He watched his dirty
4、shoes for a while and then looked at Tom. Tom knew this kind of people w 2 . They loved money very much and hated to spend it.Tom said, “Let me clean your shoes, sir.” “For nothing?” the rich man asked. “O 3 two pence(便士 ), sir.”Mr Miser shook his head and then walked away.Tom thought for a second a
5、nd then called out, “Id like to clean it for nothing!” This time Mr Miser a 4 . And soon one of his shoes was shining b 5 .When the rich man put his other shoe on the stool(凳子). Tom said he wouldnt clean it for him unless(除非 ) he was p 6 two pence for his work. Mr Miser was very angry. He r 7 to pay
6、 anything and went away with a smile on his face.Bout to his surprise, the well cleaned shoe was so bright that it make the other one look even d 8 . Mr Miser took a look round. The people in the street were laughing at him. He couldnt walk on a 9 further.At last the rich man r 10 and gave Tom two p
7、ence. In a very short time his two shoes shone brightly.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Passage 3Dick is a milkman in New York. He is nearsighted. He has a red car. The car is n 1 expensive nor cheap. Many people have cars like that. You can see them everywhere. Dick likes his car. He thinks its wond
8、erful. Dick likes to go f 2 a ride after supper. He often goes with is big white dog c 3 Bobby.Last Saturday evening Dick went to see a circus(马戏). He went in his car w 4 Bobby. Hundreds of people went to the circus, and Dick was surprised to see so many cars there.“Where can I 5 my car?” he wondere
9、d.Bobby was clever. Ti knew w 6 Dick was looking for. It jumped out of the car and ran about. It found a place between two red cars. “Good!” Dick was h 7 . He parked his car into the space and went with Bobby to see the show.When the show was o 8 , Dick went out and got i 9 the car. Bobby jumped int
10、o the next car. Dick got out and pulled the dog back. But soon it jumped into the next car again! Do you know w 10 ?1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Passage 4Many people like to explore the Internet. Exploring the Internet is one of the most important activities of the day. The Internet brings the o 1
11、 world closer to peoples homes. Some people say the world is s 2 because of the Internet.Whats going o 3 in other countries? How do people live in places far away? Is there a good sports game somewhere? Whats life I 4 in the deepest part of the sea? If you want to answer all these questions, just co
12、me to the I 5 . Of course, people can also learn through reading or listening to the radio. But with the Internet they can learn b 6 and more easily. A lot of information can be collected at a great speed.Can we go shopping without leaving home? Can you see a d 7 without going to the hospital? Can w
13、e s 8 without going to school? Can we draw money without going to a bank? All these things seemed to be impossible, but now have become quite p 9 .The Internet helps us to open our eyes. The Internet also helps to open our minds. The Internet often gives us new i 10 . In a word, it helps us in many
14、ways. Great changes have taken place in our life since the use of the Internet.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Passage 5学优中考网 Music in AmericaMusic is an international language. The songs that are sung or played by instruments(乐器) are beautiful to all people everywhere.Popular music in America is wha
15、t every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to m 1 before class, after class and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play music loudly as they d 2 on the street.Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio a 3 they drive to work. They also listen to
16、 the n 4 about sports, the weather, politics, and activities of the American people. Most of the radio broadcast is music.Pop or popular music singers make much money. They m 5 a CD or tape which radio stations use in every state. Once the popular singer is heard throughout the country, young people
17、 buy his or her tapes. Some of the money f 6 these tapes comes to the singer. W 7 the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national s 8 .There are other kinds of music that is important to Americans. One is called folk music. It tells stories about t
18、he common life of Americans. A 9 is called western or country music. This was started by were watching. Today, any music about country life and the love b 10 a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Passage 6Today people can use the phone to talk w
19、 1 others almost anywhere on the earth. But when you use the phone, you dont see the person you are talking with. That may c 2 in the near future.Today some people are using a kind of telephone called the picture phone or vision phone. With it, two people who are talking can s 3 each other.Picture p
20、hones can be useful when you have something to s 4 the person youre calling. They may have other uses in the future. One day you may be a 5 to call up a library and ask to see a book. Then youll be able to r 6 the book right over your picture phone. Or you may be able to go shopping t 7 your picture
21、 phone. Suppose you see something in the newspaper that you think you want to b 8 . Youll go to your phone and c 9 the shop. People at the shop will show you the thing youre i 10 in right over the phone. Youll be able to shop all over town and never even leave your room!1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10
22、. Passage 7Computers are useful machines. They can help people a I 1 in their daily life. For example, they can help people to s 2 much time to do much work, and they can help people to work out many problems they cant do e 3 . Our country asks everyone to learn to use computers before the twenty fi
23、rst century, e 4 the old people.Today more and more families o 5 computers. Parents buy computers for their children. They hope computers can help them improve their studies in school. Y 6 , many of their children use computers to play games, to watch video, or to sing karaoke(卡拉 OK), i 7 of studyin
24、g. So, many teachers and parents complain that computers can not help children to study but make them f 8 behind. So computers are locked in boxes by parents.In some other countries, even some scientists also hate computers. They say computers let millions of people I 9 their jobs or bring them a lo
25、t of trouble.Well computers really bring trouble to people or can they bring people happiness? It will be decided by o 10 .1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Passage 8Throughout the world, women live I 1 than men. Why? Because men smoke m 2 . Nonsmoking men live just a 3 long as women.Smokers pollution
26、the a 4 . They breathe out 100 times as much pollution as nonsmokers. They breathe it out on their children and on their wives or husbands. Children whose p 5 smoke have more breathing and lung problems than o 6 children. Among nonsmoking women married to smokers, there are twice as many deaths from
27、 lung cancer as there are among women m 7 to nonsmokers. Men have the right to kill themselves b 8 smoking if they want to. But they do not have the right to kill their w 9 and children by smoking.Smokers are absent from work more. Factories and businesses lose m 10 of dollars every year because of
28、smokers. Smokers use much more public money for medical care than nonsmokers.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Passage 9A good memory is a great help in I 1 a language. E 2 learns his own language by remembering w 3 he hears when he is a small child, and some children like boys and girls who live a 4 w
29、ith their parents seem to learn two I 5 almost as easily as to learn one. In school it is not easy to learn a s 6 language because the pupils have so I 7 time for it, and they are busy with other s 8 , too.A mans mind is rather like a camera, but it takes p 9 not only of what we see but a 10 of what
30、 we feel, hear, smell and taste. If we take a real photo with a camera, there is much work to be done before we can keep a picture forever in our mind.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 学优中考网 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Passage 10Education of Japanese children is free for the first nine years and all children must go to school for
31、 s 1 years of primary schooling(小学教育) and three years of secondary schooling(中学教育). In the primary and secondary schools, about 99.9 percent of school age children are present. School usually b 2 at eight oclock in the morning and e 3 at three oclock in the afternoon on w 4 and at noon on Saturday.
32、The school year begins in April and ends in March. There is a s 5 holiday in August and a w 6 holiday during the New Year season.After n 7 years of schooling, students can e 8 the three year high school by passing an examination and paying a small charge each year. After high school, students can go
33、 o 9 to study at various types of c 10 , usually for four years. There are also two year junior colleges.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Passage 11In most parts of the world, many students help their schools make less pollution(污染). They join “environment c 1 .” In an environment club, people work to
34、gether to make our environment c 2 .Here are some t 3 students often do.No garbage(垃圾) lunches. How much do you throw away after lunch? Environment clubs ask students to bring their lunches in bags that can be used again. Every week they will choose the classes that make the I 4 garbage and report t
35、hem to the whole school!No car day. On a no car day, n 5 comes to school in a car not the students and not the t 6 ! Cars give off waste gas in air, so remember.Walk, jump, ride or run.Use your legs! Its lots of f 7 !Turn o 8 the water! Did you know that some toilets can waste twenty to forty m3 of
36、water an hour? In a year, that would fill a small river! In environment clubs, students would mend those b 9 toilets.We love our environment. Lets work t 10 to make it clean.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Passage 12William Henry Harrision, the ninth president(总统) of the United States, was born in a
37、small town. As a boy, he was very quiet and shameful(害羞的 ). In f 1 , he was so q 2 that everyone thought he was stupid. The people of the town liked to p 3 tricks on him. For e 4 , they often put a nikel(镍币) and a dime(银币 ) in front of him and told him to choose which one be wanted. He always c 5 th
38、e nickel and then they I 6 at him.One day, a woman took pity on him. She said “William, why do you always choose the nickel i 7 of the dime? Dont you know that a dime is w 8 much more than a nickel?”“C 9 , I know it,” William answered slowly, “but if I choose the dime, they wont play tricks on me an
39、y m 10 .”1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Passage 13One day a man put an advertisement in most of the n 1 in England. He said that he h 2 was a young man of millions of pounds and of great k 3 . Hed like to choose a girl to be his w 4 , and the girl must be like the one in books written by Somerest Ma
40、ugham.This advertisement was at once k 5 by thousands of parents and young girls. Parents went to bookshops to look for the b 6 written by Maugham. They bought those books for their d 7 as presents. Girls tried to get those books to read, they wanted to know what k 8 of person the rich man wished fo
41、r.Before long all the books written by Maugham were s 9 out and the writer was known all over the country.Who was the rich man? It was Somerest Maugham who put an ad in the newspapers! The ad saved his books and it made him f 10 , too!1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Passage 14The sea looks very b 1 w
42、hen the sun is shining on it. It can be very t 2 when there is a strong wind.The sea is very big. It c 3 seventy five percent of the earth. The sea is also very deep in some places. There is one place. The sea is about eleven kilometers deep there. The highest mountain in the world is about nine kil
43、ometers high. If that mountain was put into the sea at that place, there would still be t 4 kilometres of water above it.In most parts of the sea, there are plenty of f 5 and plants. Some live near the top of sea. O 6 live deep down. There are also a lot of small I 7 things. Lots of fish live by eat
44、ing them.The sea can be very cold. When people go down, the sea b 8 colder and colder. O 9 some men can go down into the deep sea. But, in 1970, five w 10 scientists lived in the sea for fourteen days.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 学优中考网 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Passage 15People have flown kites in Japan for m 1 than 1,000
45、years. There are many d 2 kinds of kites there. Some look like bats, others look like birds. Most have pictures on them.There are many interesting stories about kites in Japan.One story t 3 us about a thief who used a kite to fly. He wanted to steal the gold from the top of an old tower. The thief a
46、nd his friends m 4 a large kite. One dark windy night, the thief caught hold of the kite. His friends raised the kite into the air. Then they moved the kite near the top of the tower. The thief was able to s 5 the gold.Another story tells about a father and a son who were on a small lonely island in the middle of the Japanese sea. There were no b 6 or ships. They couldnt go back to mainland(大陆). So they made a big k 7 . His son flew
