2024初中英语中考总复习短文填空专项练习
一、阅读下面短文,根据上下文、所给首字母或括号内单词等提示,在空白处填入适当的单词。每个空只能填一个单词。
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is used to help people keep the balance of yin and yang. But have you ever imagined that one day you can learn herb (药草) planting and TCM courses at school
A primary school in Nanjing has just 1. (open) a herb farm. More than 30 herbs are planted. Students there are g2.by doctors from a TCM hospital to tell different herbs and learn plant development, medicinal value as well as 3. (grow) herbs. The hospital has also donated over 100 cartoon books about TCM to help draw children’s a4. in herbal medicine.
Another middle school has i5. TCM courses to students of all grades. These courses c6. a basic knowledge of herbs, herb planting and cooking with herbs. They give students a deeper understanding of TCM, bringing out their sense of p7. in Chinese traditions and the country’s rich culture.
Also in Shanghai, Tongji University has provided foreign students 8. some chances to plant different kinds of herbs 9. (wide) used in Chinese medicine and cooking. By taking care of the plants, foreign students can get first-hand experience of making herbal medicine from start to finish, and spread TCM culture to their o10. countries.
The herb planting courses at schools and universities across China get students close to TCM and help pass on the tradition.
二、阅读下面短文,用括号内所给词的适当形式填空,必要时可加助动词成情态动词。
An idol is someone who we respect or love. However, unlike many of my classmates, my idol is not a film star, a famous writer or a sportsman, my idol is my dad.
Most people believe that a man 11. (go) out and work. However, when I was only a five-year-old boy, I was 12. (serious) ill and needed attention all the time. My dad knew how much my mum loved her job, so he stopped 13. (work) to stay at home and look after me. Many men in this situation would want their 14. (wife) to stay with the child, but my dad always thinks about 15. (other) before himself. This made me start to respect him.
My dad later took a job and worked at night. He chose the job so that he would only be out of the house when I was sleeping. Since then, my dad 16. (help) and supported me in everything I do. I remember when I was learning to ride a bike, my dad ran behind me and held the back of the bicyele so that I would not fall. I 17. (feel) so safe because I knew he was near. Soon, I was able to ride by 18. (I).
My family is not rich, and we do not own a big house or an expensive car. My dad has shown me that something is 19. (important) than money. Although he now works hard every day and is often very busy, he always makes time 20. (stay) with me. He helps me with my homework, and plays games with me on weekends. He has also taught me that I can achieve anything if I really work hard on it.
My dad is my idol because he showed me the most important things in life.
三、根据短文内容和所给中文提示,在空白处写出单词的正确形式。每空限填一词。
Knife-peeled noodles are a kind of food in Shanxi Province, enjoying great fame and a 21. (历史) of hundreds of years. The name shows the way the dish is prepared. A 22. (厨师) holds dough (面团) in one hand, and cuts it into pieces with a special knife in the other hand. Then they are directly thrown into a pot of boiling water. The whole process looks like an 23. (令人兴奋的) kung fu performance. As one piece of noodle falls into the boiling water, the 24. (第二) is flying in the air, and the third has just been peeled off. Within 25. (仅仅) a minute, 200 pieces of noodles can be cut out. The noodles have a shape of a 26. (叶子), with medium thickness and thin edges. The noodles are smooth and 27. (柔软的).
Shanxi people have a special feeling when having this kind of noodles. On their birthdays, a 28. (碗) of noodles means long life; at the Spring Festival, people 29. (吃) noodles for a successful new year. Knife-peeled noodles in Shanxi are not made just to satisfy a 30. (饥饿的) stomach, but a way to express Chinese people’s feelings of life.
四、请认真阅读下面短文,在答题卡标有题号的横线上,填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Dancing with the Light
A few years ago, I visited the Classical Gardens of Suzhou. During the visit, my attention was drawn away from the plants, bridges and stones, towards 31. walls of the gardens. Mostly white, some parts of the walls are losing small 32. (piece) of their covering. This creates space in which light and plants can be 33. (see). The walls are not only the boundaries of the gardens, but they also form protected paths that guide you on a trip.
The memory of the white walls stayed with me. I kept 34. (imagine) how many shadows (影) could be collected by them to dance with the light. This fantastic moment was so lively 35. I came back to explore it with my camera.
Working 36. (free) with these walls and their marks, I began to feel like collecting all the stories that were painted there. Weather and time have turned these 37. (amaze) white walls into Chinese landscape paintings.
I 38. (take) the photos during the month of June, just after the rain. The air was full of small drops of water, showing the light and the color 39. the things around. As color was born out of a dance between light and a body, when photographing in color I found 40. (I) enjoying a moment of this dance.
五、根据短文内容和首字母提示,在下文空格处填入适当的词使短文完整。(每空一词)
Peter Pan wishes Wendy, John and Michael, especially Wendy, would stay in Neverland forever, but finally the Darling children decide to fly back home and grow up.
“Quick, Tink,” Peter whispers. “S41. the window. Then when Wendy comes back, she will think her mother doesn’t love her anymore, and she will return to Neverland with me.”
Mrs. Darling is playing the piano. Peter didn’t know the tune, Home, Sweet Home, b42. he knows it’s saying, “Come back, Wendy, Wendy, Wendy.” Peter looks through the door and sees two big tears in Mrs. Darling’s eyes.
“She loves Wendy,” he thinks. “But I love Wendy, too. We c43. both have her.”
He looks at Mrs. Darling again. The two tears are still sitting on her e44..
“Oh, all right,” he says at last, sadly. Then he opens the window.
When Wendy, John, and Michael arrive, they find the window o45. for them. They all get into bed to surprise their mother.
When Mrs. Darling goes back to the children’s room, they are all in their beds. They wait for her to say something, but she says n46.. She thinks she is dreaming. She sits by the fire.
The children are so w47.. Why isn’t their mother happy to see them again All three of them jump out of bed, run to her and shout, “Mother!” She realizes she is not d48. anymore. Mr. Darling and Nana come in. They are all so happy. Peter w49. them from the window but he is looking at something he will never have.
Many years pass. When Peter visits Wendy again, she has g 50. up and has a daughter of her own. Peter is still a boy who can’t grow up.
—Taken from Peter Pan
六、阅读下面短文,在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Lixia, or the Start of Summer, is the 51. (seven) of the 24 Chinese solar terms (节气) which falls on May 6 of this year. It symbolizes (象征) the passing from spring 52. summer.
With the heat of summer, plants and crops will begin to grow much 53. (fast). So farmers are always happy to welcome the arrival of Lixia. This is 54. best time of the year to plant early rice in the southern part of China. Chinese has plenty of old sayings 55. are used to warn people not to be lazy during this period of time.
In China, people celebrate the day of Lixia in different ways. For example, in some places people cook “Five-Colored Rice”. Usually, it 56. (make) from five kinds of beans (豆)—mung bean, red bean, yellow bean, black bean and green bean. It stands for people’s good wishes for a colorful life. People also have the custom of 57. (eat) some different kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables. On the day of Lixia, children will wear a bag with an egg around their necks in some areas. This is believed to help keep 58. (they) safe and healthy. Other 59. (tradition) of Lixia include the singing of beautiful folk songs. And people also weigh themselves on Lixia. When the summer 60. (pass), they’ll weigh themselves again to see how many pounds they have lost during the hot season.
七、阅读下面短文,在空白处填一个适当的词或填入括号中所给单词的正确形式。
Our family bought a new smart TV set last week. It is 61. (real) cool! But we didn’t know what we should do 62. the old one. Then I 63. (see) an advertisement (广告) for Tech-Help. Tech-Help donates smart TV sets to people who need them.
64. far, Tech- Help has donated (捐赠) 65. (many) than 2,000 smart TV sets to different families across the country. Last year they gave smart TV sets to poor families. 66. is very easy to donate smart TV sets to Tech-Help. Yesterday, my brother 67. I took the old smart TV set to a local shop. Two 68. (hour) later, Tech-Help collected it from the shop. They will clean the smart TV set and make it better.
Right now, Tech-Help is giving smart TV sets to families in Xinjiang. There are about 50 families on the 69. (wait) list. They believe they will get the smart TV sets soon. I’m 70. (excite) we could do something to help others!