【中考夺分译林牛津版】2015英语中考夺分课件　题型集训（四）　短文填空

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A[2014·武汉]
Maria Vas and her dog walked down the hall of the nursing home and stopped in front of the old lady with a nurse at her side. “Would she like to 1.s________ my dog？” Maria asked.
“No, a visit won't 2.h________ her，” said the nurse. Then she 3.e________ that the lady was too sick to appreciate visitors.
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But Maria decided to try anyway. She had done research on animal assisting therapy(辅助疗法) for ten years. And she was very successful in this 4.a________. She'd seen even the sickest patients enjoy a visit from a lovely dog.
Maria carried the dog over to the old lady. Immediately, the woman 5.r________ toward the dog! She was so 6.p________ that she began smiling and trying to talk. The nurse stood aside, 7.w________ them in amazement. This woman had never communicated with anyone. It was like she wasn't even 8.a________—until the dog came to a visit.
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Around the world sick adults and 9.c________ fill lonely hospital rooms. They may have an illness or need to be 10.c________ for. A dog's friendly eyes and warm paws(爪子) may be just what the doctor ordered to encourage them and help them heal(治愈)
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B[2014·南通]
Stress is a state of being upset that happens when we are under pressure. We students have all experienced stress over problems with our everyday 1.l________. We may go to school or come back home with worries. Some worry about the 2.r________ of tests or exams, difficulty with their studies, or too much homework. 3.O________ feel bad about being overweight or lack(缺少) of free time.
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Since stress can make us sick, we have to learn how to 4.d________ with it. When you are stressed, don't forget your hobbies. If you are fond of 5.m________， just turn on the radio or CD player. Generally, 6.p________ think that TV may interfere(干扰) with their children's studies. However, if you worry about your English and don't 7.k________ what to do, you can get help from English TV programmes. It is also helpful to 8.s________ your worries with your friends. They will surely give you some 9.a________ and help you out of trouble.
So, if we treat stress properly, we can 10.r________ ourselves and keep away from its bad effects.
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C[2014·南京]
In the 1930s, Dan West was farming in Spain. It was wartime, and people were starving(挨饿). An 1.i________ hit him as he handed out cups of milk to children. “These children don't need a cup. They need a cow.” This was the 2.b________ of Heifer International.
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Heifer International gives different 3.k________ of gifts. Its gifts might say “quack” or “moo”. Dan West asked friends in the United States to give gifts of heifers(小母牛), or young cows. 4.S________ then, Heifer International has given animals to four million families. It gives people the chance to 5.f________ themselves.
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Heifer International wants the people they help to help others. For one project, the group 6.s________ chickens to some children in Asia. The children yearned for(向往) the day when they could help others. Nine year old Julie knew she had to look after her chickens 7.w________ so they would produce new eggs and healthy chicks. She 8.t________ good care of them, and they gave birth to strong, healthy chicks. Julie then passed on the gift of chicks to other families.
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Because of Heifer International, children can 9.s________ their days in a schoolhouse instead of working in the fields. They can use the money they earn from their animals to pay for school. Heifer International has made a huge 10.d________ to people's lives for many years. People should be grateful to a kind hearted farmer named Dan West.
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D[2014·无锡]
People in developed countries usually get their drinking water from a faucet(水龙头) or a bottle. But finding safe drinking water can be rather 1.d________ in developing countries. People in India, for example, often drink polluted water, which can lead to illness or even 2.d________. But one Indian company, Sarvajal, has 3.i________ a great machine: the “water ATM”. Sarvajal's water filtering(水过滤) network has already 4.p________ clean water in more than 130 places. Many of these places are small 5.v________. The water ATM is new and important part of Sarvajal's business.
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How do these water ATMs 6.w________？ First, local workers filter water using Sarvajal's equipment(设备). Then workers 7.s________ the clean water to the ATMs and sell prepaid(预付费) cards to local people. Then they can 8.e________ get water from the ATMs with the cards.
Thanks to Sarvajal's network and water ATMs, clean water is now 9.a________ to over 70，000 people in India. It makes sense that in one of the local 10. l________ Sarvajal means “water for all”．
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E[2014·镇江]
More and more families like to keep dogs as pets. But not all dog owners think of others while they are walking their dogs. So many towns and cities around the world 1.f________ a mess of left behind feces(粪便) from dogs.
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In February of this year, a town in France started a new 2.p_____________ to teach dog owners a lesson. The 3.g________ sent about 20 volunteers to search the streets carefully, looking for humans who wouldn't clean up after their dogs. The volunteers who seemed to have no 4.c______________ aim would then move nearer to the pet owner, then start a conversation in order to get the dog's name. “5.W________ the name of the dog and its type, we can 6.e________ discover the owner from the registered(登记) database(信息库) held in the town hall，” an officer 7.e________. The volunteers would then pick up the dog feces and the package would be 8.p________ to the pet owner's house. In the past few 9.m________， the town has seen a 70% decrease(减少) in the amount of dog feces left on public streets.
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Maybe many cities in our country can follow its 10.e________. In this way there will be fewer complaints about dog owners.
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F[2014·扬州]
Once there was a lovely vegetable field with a very big tree in it. Both the vegetables and the 1.t________ made the garden look wonderful.
No one knew that the vegetables in the field and the tree couldn't get on well with each other. The vegetables 2.h________ the tree. They thought the tree did not leave them 3.e________ light to survive. On the other hand, the tree hated the vegetables. He complained that the vegetables drank nearly all the water 4.b________ it could get to him.
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The situation became worse and worse. One day, the vegetables got angry and decided to use up all the 5.w________ in the ground so that the tree would dry up. The tree fought back by refusing to give the vegetables shade(树荫) from the hot sun. Soon they both began to dry up.
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Neither of them thought that the gardener would stop watering his vegetable 6.f________ when he saw it becoming worse. When the gardener did that, the tree and the vegetables really felt how 7.t________ they were. There seemed to be no ways to solve the problem, but one of the vegetables, a small pumpkin 8.r________ what was going on, and decided to deal with it. Though there was little water and it was too hot, the little pumpkin did all he could to grow, grow… 9.F________， he grew very big, the gardener noticed that and started watering the field again because he wanted to win the
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beautiful big pumpkin competition. At the same time, the tree and the vegetables grew better. They realized that it was better to help each other than to 10.f________．
From then on, they worked together and lived in harmony with those around them.
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