中考语法填空专练 (三)
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A couple would go on vacation, but the wife was on a business trip, (16)_______ he husband went to the destination (目的地) first and his wife would (17)_______ (meet) him the next day.
When he reached the hotel, he decided to send his wife (18) ______ quick email. (19)_______ when he typed her address, he typed a wrong number and his note was sent to (20)______ elderly preacher’s (牧师的) wife (21)________ (who) husband had been (22)______ (die) for two days.
When the sad woman checked her email, she (23)_______ (take) one look at the note, shouted and fell to the floor in a dead faint.
At (24)_______ moment, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen: Dearest Wife,
I just checked in. Everything was (25) _______ (prepare) for your arrival tomorrow.
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Howard Carter was a famous explorer. During his life, he 6. ______ (discover) many important and exciting things. In 1891, he went to Egypt 7. _______ ship. By the 1920s, he had become 8. _____ explorer, looking for the tombs (坟墓) of the Egyptian 9. _______ (king). He found several important ones. In 1922, Howard Carter made his most important discovery of all. When Carter’s team was 10. _______ (work) at a place near a city called Luxor, they found 11.______ tomb of King Tutankhamun.
Not long after the tomb was 12. _____ (open), people in Carter’s team began to 13. _____ (get) ill and die strangely. Within seven years, 21 people 14. ______had something to do with the opening of the tomb 15. ______ (death). However, Howard Carter lived on and died at the age of 65.
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In traditional Chinese medicine, food is divided (划分) into two types: hot and cold. Both kinds of food affect (影响) your body (16) ______ different ways. So, having (17) _____ balanced diet is safe and (18) _____ (health) for your body.
Some examples of hot food (19) ______ (be) berries, mutton, and ginger (生姜). If you eat too much of them, (20) ______ (certainly) things might happen to your body. You may start to sweat a lot and feel pain in your back, or even grow gray hair! If any of these things happen to you, you should avoid (避免) spicy food, coffee, or sugar.
On (21) _____ other hand, too much cold food like beef and potatoes can also cause problems. It may make your hands and (22) _____ (foot) cold. It also makes your body temperature lower.
Besides what we eat, (23) ______ we eat is also important. You should always sit down and chew (咀嚼) carefully. Don’t make (24) ______ (you) busy with other things, such as watching TV or (25) ______ (read) a newspaper. Finally, it’s best to eat three meals a day at regular times.
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Guy de Maupassant was a famous (11) ______ (France) writer. He was born in Normandy on August 5, 1850. He wrote many (12) ______ (novel), such as My Uncle Jules and Necklace. I have (13) ______ (read) Necklace. The story goes like this: A woman wants to go to a party, but she doesn’t have (14) ______ necklace. (15) ______ she (16) ______ (borrow) one from her friend. After (17) ______ party, the necklace is missing. She has to borrow lots of money to buy a new necklace for her friend. Then she (18) ______ (work) hard to pay back the money and she becomes very old because of hard work. Finally, she (19) ______ (know) that her friend’s necklace is not (20) ______ (really).
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I’m Ted. I have a cousin (16) _____ (call) John. He is six (17) ______ (year) old now and he is very cute. One day, his mother asked him to (18) ______ (draw) a picture. She put three oranges (19) ______ the table and told him to finish (20) ______ picture before she came back. Then she went out. Little John thought it was too hard to draw (21) ______ many oranges. Then he had (22) ______ idea. He ate one orange, and there were two oranges on the table. He thought he still had two oranges to draw. If there was only one, it would be much (23) _____ (easy) to draw. So he ate another orange, and there was only one orange. Finally, he drew one orange on the paper. When his mother (24) ______ (come) home, John gave the picture to her. (25) ______ a clever boy!
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One day a man put (16) _____ ad in most of the newspapers in England. He said that he was a young man with millions of (17) _____ (pound) and great knowledge. He’d like to find a girl to be his wife and the girl must be like the one in the books (18) _____ (write) by Somerset Maugham. Thousands of parents and young girls knew about the ad at once. Parents all went to the (19) _____ (bookshop) to look for Somerset Maugham’s books. They (20) _____ (buy) those books for their daughters (21) ______ presents. Girls tried to get those books to read although they weren’t interested in (22) _____ (read). They wanted to know what kind of person the rich man wished for. Before long all the books of Maugham were (23) ______ (sell) out and the writer (24) ______ (be) known all over (25) ______ country. Who was the rich man It was Somerset Maugham who put the ad in the newspapers! The ad saved his books and it made him famous too!
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Lillian Hanson, (16) ______ college student, expected to graduate in about two (17) _______ (year). What made Mrs Hanson (18) _______ (difference) from her classmates was her age –73 years old.
Mrs Hanson never (19) _____ (forget) the dream of (20) ______ (get) higher education. When the children grew up, she tried again and succeeded. In (21) ______ class on her first day, when she introduced (22) ______ (her) and explained why she was there and what her aims were, all the other (23) _______ (student) stood up to give her a warm welcome.
Among the challenges, Mrs Hanson found that the (24) _______ (hard) part of going back to school at her age was sitting in class for a long time. (25) ______, she said she would stick to her dream no matter how difficult it was.
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England has many interesting (7) _______ (place) that people like to visit. Among them, the pub is often said to be (8) ______very special place for visitors to get to know (9) _______ real life of the English people. The pub (10) ______ (be) a small “public place”, where people can buy (11) ______ (beer), soft drinks (12)______ even some fast food. What’s more, a pub is also a meeting place where people sit and enjoy the beer and talking with (13) ______ (friend). One can easily find a pub at the street corner (14) ______ in a small village. English people like the pub a lot. After a whole day of (15) _____ (busily) work, many men spend the whole evening in the pub and go back home at about eleven o’clock when the pub (16) _____ (close).
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Itzhak Perlman is (16) ______ famous violinist. He was born (17) _____ 1945. He once gave a concert in New York City. Getting on stage was difficult for him (18) ______ he is disabled.
The audience sat (19) _____ (quiet) while he made his way across the stage to (20) _____ (he) chair. Then he picked up the violin, (21) _____ (put) it under his chin (下巴) and started to play. But this time, when he finished the (22) _____ (one) part, one of the (23) _____ (string) on his violin broke. (24) ______, he continued to (25) _____ (play) the music. The music he played with three strings sounded even more wonderful than it was played with four strings.
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Among thousands of television (6) _____ (programme), I like two kinds of them: the science programme (7) _____the sports programme. As (8) ____ boy, I really love to watch something about science, such as new (9) ______ (discovery) and science development. This kind of programme (10) _____ (make) me know more about the world. Also, I like the sports programme,
especially the basketball programme. It is enjoyable to watch the wonderful (11) _______ (match).
And I am interested in (12) ______ (play) basketball with my friends. It’s really (13) ______ (relax). These (14) ______ (be) my favourite programmes. Do you like (15) _____ (watch) them
中考语法填空专练 (三)
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