Unit 3 Could you please tell me where the restrooms are?核心素养短文填空专项基础及提升训练 （含答案）

九年级Unit 2 核心素养话题短文填空专项训练
【基础训练】
【尴尬的问路经历】
Some people have a very poor____1____of direction. Unluckily, I am one of them. I have visited a place many times ____2____ I may still get lost there the next time.
When I was a little girl, I never dared to ____3____ strangers the way. And so I used ____4____ walk around in circles and hope that by chance I would get to the place I was going to.
I am now no longer ____5____shy to ask people for directions, but I often receive helpless or even wrong information. So I try to avoid giving people wrong directions. If anyone ever asks me the way somewhere, I would say, “Sorry, I am ____6____ stranger here.”
Once on my way to work I was stopped ____7____ a man. He asked me if I could tell him the ____8____ to the Friendship Building. I gave him my usual reply. But just as I walked on only a few steps, I realized that he had asked the way to my office building. However, I had no time to turn back and look for ____9____. I was rushing to meet with someone at my office and I didn’t want to keep him waiting.
When I just got to my office, the secretary(秘书) showed in the man who had asked me for directions.Imagine how embarrassed I was and ___10___surprised he was when we saw each other at first sight.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
答案：
sense 2.but 3.ask 4.to 5.too 6.a 7.by 8.way 9.him 10.How
【主题：惊险过山车】
On Saturday, my whole family went to an ____1____ park. The weather was perfect, and everyone was in a great mood(情绪).
“Filip,” said my brother. “Do you want to go on that ride ____2____me ”
“Sure,” I said.
The ride was the new Wacky Wheely Roller Coaster(过山车). I had seen ads for this huge roller coaster for months. I was ____3____ excited that I couldn’t wait to try it.
As we got in line, we decided that we would both try to keep our hands in the air the whole time because that would make it even ___4___ enjoyable.
I was so busy talking to my brother that I missed a sign. The sign reminded us ___5___ empty our pockets before going on the ride. With all the time upside down(上下颠倒) on the ride, things would____6___ out of the riders’ pockets. Since I didn’t see it, I didn’t ____7____my pockets.
The ride started. ___8___ was a very fast roller coaster! I felt my phone falling from my pocket. My hands were in the air, just as we had promised. I didn’t catch my phone, so it hit me on the head and fell to the ground below.
My mom and dad said they would take me to get a new phone when I had enough money to ____9____ for it. Until now, I don’t have a ____10____.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
答案
amusement 2. with 3. so 4.more 5.to 6. fall 7. empty 8.It 9. pay 10. phone
【主题：一位盲人的旅行趣事】
Mr. White is a blind man who likes traveling alone. However, as a blind man, he has met a lot of troubles during his ____1____.
　　Once Mr. White traveled to Texas. It was his first time to go there. On the plane, he sat next to a ___2____ who came from Texas. The woman told him that everything was 　bigger and better in her city. When Mr. White ___3___, he found a hotel and decided to spend the night there.
　　After dinner, Mr. White went to a bar(酒吧) and ordered a glass of wine. When the waiter brought him one, he was surprised. “Wow! How ____4____!” he said. Mr. White doesn’t drink often, so he was a little drunk after drinking the wine. He wanted to go to the restroom,____5____he asked another waiter for help. “Turn right at the information desk and the second door on the right is the ____6____,” said the waiter.
　　When Mr. White walked past the ___7____ door, he fell over. He missed the second and went towards the third door instead. He walked forward and then ___8___ into the swimming pool. At that time he remembered that ____9____there was bigger. “Don’t flush(冲厕所)! Don’t flush!” he shouted as soon as he got ____10____ head above water.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
答案：
trips 2.woman 3.arrived 4.big 5. so 6.restroom 7. first 8. fell 9. everything 10. his
【能力提升训练】
【主题：机场的一场误会】
Mrs. Smith planned to____1____to New York. She was waiting for her flight(航班) at the airport.
Mrs. Smith bought a bag of cookies, found a place to sit and took out her___2____. She started to read and suddenly noticed that a man, sitting beside her, took a cookie from her bag. She just ___3____not to see this. So she ate the cookies quickly and at the ____4____time watched how the shameless thief was stealing her cookies. She thought to ____5____, “If I wasn’t such a nice person, I would hit him in the eye.”
When only one cookie was ___6____, she looked with interest and wondered what he would do. He smiled, took ___7___ last cookie and broke it in half. She thought, “This guy is so impolite. He didn’t even show any thanks !”
After her flight was called, the woman collected her baggage(行李) and headed for the gate. She took her seat on the ___8___, and started to look for her book, which was almost complete. As she reached her baggage, she gasped(倒抽气) with surprise,____9____ there was an unopened bag of cookies. A terrible thought crossed her mind, “If my cookie bag is here, the other one was his and he just tried to share.” She realized that she was the ___10___ one, but it was too late to say sorry to him.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
答案：
fly 2. book 3.tried 4. same 5.herself 6. left 7. the 8. plane 9.because/as 10. impolite
【主题：米拉山隧道】
　　The world’s____1_____ highway tunnel(公路隧道) was opened to traffic on April 26, 2019, at an altitude(海拔) of over 4,750 meters above sea level in Southwest China’s Tibet.
The two-way tunnel is over 5.7 km long, which is part of the 400-km highway connecting Lhasa ___2___ Nyingchi. People started building the tunnel in 2015 on the 5,018-meter-high Mila Mountain. The tunnel helps shorten the 18-km distance(距离) over the mountain to 5.7 km.
It wasn’t easy to ___3___ the highest tunnel in China. The terribly cold ___4___ and too little oxygen(氧气) were two main difficulties. Besides, carrying everything for living and building to the site(工地) was___5____great challenge for over 2,000 workers who were building the tunnel.
____6____, everyone at the site worked hard together to finish building the tunnel on time and more____7____ ten latest techniques were created while workers were doing this great project. “We’ve worked here and lived in simple houses ____8____ several years,” said Xu Yong, the leader of the project. “Everything used to be so difficult, but we never felt sorry for working here. ____9____ was a great project.”
The highway is an important way to the eastern part of Tibet. It can ____10____ to make more people visit Tibet and bring traffic convenience to local people.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
答案
1.highest 2.with 3. build 4.weather 5.a 6. However 7. than 8. for 9.It 10. help