中考英语选词填空专项训练1. well , soft, sec ond ‘better , may , stro ngly, afraid, sand , stay up,if, now, houseWe can ' t stop an earthquak地（震）, but we can do things to make sure they don 毁坏't destroy（whole cities. First, it is not a 1 . ________ idea to build houses along lines where 2. ____________of the earth ' plates（板块）join together. Second, if you think there 3. ________________ be an earthquake, it is better to build houses on rocks , not on 4. __________ . Third, you must make thehouses as 5. _________ as possible. Weak buildings will fall down in an earthquake, but strongones may 6. _________ ..Scien tists are 7. ________ that one day an eve n bigger earthquake will hit the part aroundSan Francisco（旧金山）.They call it “ The Big One ve”,peopwetoday are still buildingmore 8. __________ . The populati on in and around San Fran cisco is 9. ___________ ten timesmore tha n it was in 1906. This means that 10. __________ there is ano ther earthquake, a greatmany houses and buildi ngs will be destroyed.（2 ）2. forget, bring , mend, beside, luck, pick , same, differently, I , every , stop, eachMr. Brown had an umbrella shop in a small town. People sometimes 1 _____________ himbroke n umbrellas, and the n he took them to a big shop in London. They were 2 _________ there.One day Mr. Brow n went to London by trai n. He 3 ______ to take an umbrella with himthat day. Sitt ing in front of him was a man with an umbrella sta nding 4 ______ the seat. Whenthe train arrived in London, Mr. Brow n 5 ___________ up the umbrella as he ofte n did duri ng hisjourney by train. Just as he was gett ing off, he was 6 ____________ by the man. He said an grily,“ That ' 可 _______ ! ” Mr. Brown ' s face turned red and he gave it back to the man at once.When Mr Brow n got to the big shop, the shopkeeper had got his six umbrellas ready. After a good look at 8of them, he said, __________ “ You' ve men ded them very well. ”In the after noon he got into the train aga in. The 9 _________ man was in the same seat.He looked at Mr Brown and his six umbrellas, “ Y0u_ ve had aay, ” he said.（3 ）not speak, call , idea, and, what, garde n, hear , quiet , do ,eat , n ame, sayA farmer saw an old man growing something on the other side of the river.The farmer —1— out to him, “ What are you grow ing , Gran dpa? ”The old man _2__for a moment, then said, “ Swir3 ove' ll tell you. ”The farmer did n ' t like the of swim ming across the river. But he wan ted to know 5 —theold man was doing. He swam over. The old man said very 6_ in his ear, “ I ' m planting peasin my 7 .“ You should have shouted. I would have 8 quite clearly on that side. ” Said the farmer.“ Oh, no, I wouldn 9 ' that . The sparrows would have heard me and 10 my peas. ”（4 ）3. telephone , for, lose, so, strong, clever, somebody, good, happy, outside, everybody, atMrs An drews had a young cat, and it was the cat ' s first win ter. One evening it waswhe n it bega n to snow heavily. Mrs An drews looked 2. ________ it everywhere and shouted itsn ame, but she did not find it, 3. _______ she teleph one the police and said, 4. _ I havea small black cat. Has 5. ________ found one? ”“ No madam, ” said the policeman at the other end, “ But cats are really very 6. _______ animals. They sometimes live for days in the snow, and when it melts （融化）or somebody finds them, they are quite 7. ________________________ . ”Mrs Andrews felt 8. _______ when she heard this. "And , ” she said, 9. “ Our cat is very_______ . She almost talks. ”The policeman was getting tired, “ Well then, ” he said “ Why don' you put your10. _______ dow n? Maybe she is tryi ng to teleph one you now. ”（5 ）4. tell, hear, liste n to , guard, drum, much, fly , army, with, other, way , in struct ionHere are some old ways to sending messages.An Egyptian（埃及人）put his ear to the ground. He 1 . ________ the horses coming this way.He ran to 2. __________ his people . He was a 3. _________ . That was one way for Egyptia nsto send messages.People in 4. _________ coun tries sent message, too. When en emies came, one man beat hisdrum. In the next village people heard the drum and beat their drums, too. The messages went from village to village by 5. _____________________________ .Much 6. ________ , some armies （军队）kept many pigeons（鸽子）.These pigeons always 7._______ back. When a soldier was sent far away from his own 8. ________ , he might take apigeon along. He could tie a message to the bird ' s leg. It would _y bathle金oldier ' s message.These are show n ways to send messages. Can you thi nk of more 10. ______ ?（6 ）5. before, discover , fast, in, come, watch , so, fastly, it, ago , shine, not canLight travels at a speed（速度）which is about a millio n times 1 . ______ tha n that of sound.2. _______ one sec on d, light travels about 300,000 kilometers, but sound travels only 340 meters.You can get some idea of this differe nee by 3. ___________ the start of a running match. If youstand far away from the starter（发令员）,you can see smoke 4. ______ from his gun 5. ________the sound reaches your ears.The fast speed of light produces some stra nge facts. The n earest star is 6. _______ far awaythat light which you can see from it toni ght started to travel to you four years 7. ____________ at aspeed of nearly two million kilometers every minute. The light from some of to night ' s started on 8.________ j ourney towards you even before you were born.So, if we want to be honest（诚实）,we 9. _______ s ay , “ The stars are shining brightlytoni ght. 'We have to say, “ The stars look nice. They were 10. ____________ four years ag ohburlight has just reached our earth. ”6. happy, in terest, problem, n ever, get away, eye, run , tire, have, miss ,catch, thinkA man was sitting in the doctor ' s office. He was telling the doctor about his 1 . ________"like football, Doctor. He said, “ Pleasdnelp me. My life has 2. ____________ been a good onesince I became 3. _________ in football and it is getting worse and worse. I can ' even4. from it in my sleep. Whe n I close my5. in the rfo o ttbaheedand 6. after a flying ball. When I wake up, I 'm more 7. than I was before I went to bed. What am I going to do? ”The doctor sat back and said, "First of all, you 8. to do your best not todream（做梦）about football. Before you fall asleep, try to 9. _______ about something else. Tryto thi nk that you are at a party and some one is going to give you several milli on dollars."Are you crazy 疯了）？"the man shouted, " I ' ll 10. ___________ the ball ! ”（8 ）other, move, eno ugh, find ,desert, make, use , ano ther, friend , carry , trouble, friendYou may think there is nothing but sand in the desert of the world, but it is not true. In thedesert we can 1. _____ ston es. We can see hills, too. There is a little rain in the 2. _______ , butit is not 3. _____ for most pla nts.The ani mals are 4. ________ t o the desert people in many ways. The desert people eat themeat and drink the milk of the ani mals. They use their skins to 5. _______ shoes, water bags andeven tents（帐篷）.They use the camels（骆驼）for 6. ___ things.The people of the desert have to keep 7. ______ from places to place. They must alwayslook for grass or desert plants for their animals. They usually live in the tents. When there is momore food for their animals, they take down their tents, put them on the camels and move to 8._______ place. The desert people are very 9. ______ . No man in the desert would ever refuseto help the people in 10. _______ and give them food and water.（9 ）9. how, they ,win ter, summer spe nd, care , dance , take, show , ope n , only, goodThe world of the out-of doors is full of secrets. And 1. _______ are so in terest ing thatquite a lot of people are busy study ing them. All around us are birds, ani mals, trees and flowers. The facts about 2. they live and grow are as in teresti ng as anything could be.Do you know that one of the great preside nts of the Un ited States 3 ______ hours andhours study ing birds? A bus in essma n who lives n ear New York City became so in terested in in sects （昆虫）that he bega n to collect them. He now has more tha n one thousa nd differe nt kinds 4. kept in the glass boxes.Come then with me, and I will help you find some of Nature ' s secrets. Let us go quietly through the woods and fields. Here we shall find how a rabbit tells the other rabbits that there is dan ger. We shall follow a mother bear and her young ones as they search for food and get ready for 5. _ sleep. We shall watch bees 6. in the air to let other bees know wherethey can find food. I will 7. ______ you many other in teresti ng thin gs, but the 8. _______ t hingthat I can teach you is to keep your eyes and ears 9. _______ whe n you go out of doors. Naturetells her secrets 10. ______ to people who look and liste n carefully.（10 ）10. two, sudden , cold, teach, in surprise, French, hot, beard, photo, office, passport,ChinaMr Hill arrives at London Airport, at the end of a three-week holiday in 1. _______ . Usuallyhe wears a beard（蓄着胡须）.Since it has been 2. ______ there, he has taken it off （剃掉）.Buthis passport photo shows him with his 3. ________ .An officer looks at the 4. _______ for a moment, and says , "Will you excuse me? Please sitdow n. I sha n't keep you Ion g." With this, he walks away, shows the photo to a sec ond 5. ____ ,and says: "I know that face." The sec ond officer looks at the 6. ____________ and asks where MrHill has come from. When he hears that Mr Hill has arrived back from Paris, the 7. ______________officer smiles and says: "An Englishman with a beard stole a painting in Paris on Friday, And thatman looks just the kind of man..."8. _______ it comes to the first officer who Mr Hill is. He returns to him, and asks: "Did you9. _______ at the No.2. High School?" When Mr Hill an swers, 10. _______ , that he did, thefirst officer smiles and says: "I thought so. I'm Jack Smith. You taught me Fren ch. You have n't cha nged a bit."（11 ）how, much, safe, tha nk, play , be, invent , no, so , in terest, must , askThomas Edis on was a great America n 1. ______ . When he was a child, he was always2. _______ questi ons and trying out new ideas. No matter3. __________ hard it was, he n evergave up.Young Tom was in school for only three mon ths. His teacher did n ' t un dersta nd why he had 4. _______ many strange questions. Most of them were not about his lessons. The teacherdidn ' t want to teach Tom any 5. ________ . He asked Tom ' s mother to take the boy home. Tom mother taught him to read and write, and she found him 6. ____________ a very good pupil. Helearnt very fast and became very 7. _________ in scie nee.One day , he saw a little boy 8. ___________ on the railway tracks at a stati on. A train wascoming n ear quiclly, and the boy was too frighte ned to move. Edis on rushed out and carried the boy to 9 . . The boy ' father was so 10. ___ that he taught Edis on to sendmessages by telegraph.（12 ）as, sleep ,dream, like, aga in, about, think, must, wake up, quick, much ,why"Dreams （梦）may be more important than sleep. We all need to dream," some scientists say.Dreams take up about one quarter of our 1 . _______ time. People have several2. ______ each ni ght. Dreams are like short films. They are usually in colour. Some dreams are3. ______ old films. They come to us over and over4. _____________ . That may be because thedreamer is worrying about something. Dreaming may be a way of trying to find an answer.Some people get new ideas 5. __________ their work from dreams. They may have been 6._______ a bout their work all day. These thoughts can carry over into dreams.Sometimes we 7. ________ with a good feeli ng from a dream. But ofte n we can't rememberthe dream. Dreams can disappear （消失）8. _______ f rom memory （记忆）.Too much dream ing can be harmful （有害的）.The 9. __________ we sleep, the Ion ger wedream. The mi nd is hard at work whe n we dream. That is 10. ________ we may have a long sleepand still wake up tired.（13 ）More than seven hundred years ago, the Prince of Wales had a very big and brave dog called Gelert.One day the Prince wan ted to go 1. _______ with his men. He told his 2. _______ t o stayat home and look after his baby son. The baby was in a wooden cradle （摇篮）,which was like a small bed.When the Prince came back from hunting, Gelert ran out to meet his master. He wagged his tail and jumped up to put his paws （前爪）on the Prince's chest. Then the Prince saw theblood on Gelert's jaws and head."What have you don e?" the Prince said. He rushed into his house and 3. _______ h is babyson. The cradle was lyi ng on its side on the floor. The clothes were torn and there was blood on them."So you have killed my son?" the Prince said angrily. "You unfaithful dog!" He took out his sword （剑）and 4. t he dog. Just as Gelert was 5. _____ , he man aged to bark.Then the Prince heard a baby call to the dog.The Prince ran out of the house and saw his son lying on the ground un hurt. Near him wasa dead 6. _________ . Then the Prince knew that Gelert had defended （保卫）the baby andkilled the wolf.The Prince ran 7. __________ i nto the house but he was too late. Gelert was dead. The Princewas very sad in deed. 8. __________ ran dow n his face whe n he realized 'he had killed 9._______ faithful frie nd. The Prince carried the body of his brave dog to the top of a moun tai n and buried him there. After this, the Prince never smiled again. Every morning at dawn, he walked up the mountain and stood by the dog's grave for a few minu tes.If you go to Mount Snowdon in Wales, people will show you where Gelert is buried. There is a sig n by his grave. It 10. ___________________________ people of a brave and faithful dog.（14 ）and ,receive , satellite , weather , change ,help, or , early , for, when, forecast , starSatellites Forecast the WeatherNow satellites are helping to forecast （预扌报）the weather. They are in space, and they canreach any part of the world. The 1. _______ take pictures of the atmosphere （大气）,because thisis where the weather forms （形成）.They send these pictures to the 2. _______ station. So thescientists there can see the weather of any part of the world and tell how the weather will change.Today, nearly five hundred weather stations in sixty countries can 3. _____________ satellitepictures. 4. ________ they receive the new pictures, they compare （比较）them with the earlierones. Perhaps they may find that the clouds have 5. __________ during the last few hours. Thismay mean that the weather on the ground may soon change, too. In their next weather 6. , they can tell peopleabout it. So the weather satellites are of a great 7. to the scie ntists at the stati on. In the past they could forecast the weather for about 24 or 48 hours 8. . Now they can make good forecasts for three 9 five days. Soon, perhaps, they may be able to forecast the weather 10. a week or more ahead.（15 ）have, study , happy ,leave, coffee, message, on , must , next ,arrive, go , sheCatherine was a famous writer of children's stories. She lived in a fine old house in a small town n ear London. Often she worked at home, in her quiet 1. ____________________________ ong before her booksbecame popular, she had tried to teach 2 ________ how to use a computer. And now she typed （打字）all her stories on her computer. But sometimes she had to 3 _______ the house to get somebooks from the library or have a meet ing. She did n't like being away because she was worried about burglar （盗贼）.So she was very careful. Just before leaving, she always put a full cup of coffee on the writi ng desk, and left the radio play ing to make a burglar thi nk some one 4 _______be at home.One day she came back after a day out, and found that there was someth ing differe nt in her house. There was only a little 5. ________________________ lift in the cup, and the radio was off. But when shelooked at her computer, she saw it was 6. _______ , and some one had typed in a new story. Shehad no idea who had got in, or how, because none of the doors or win dows was broke n. Then she sat dow n to read the story. To her surprise, it was a very good one."门I use it i n my 7. ________________________book!" she said 8 _______ .The next month she had to go to London. She put a cup of coffee and a plate of san dwiches on the desk. When she retur ned, the coffee and the san dwiches had 9. _____________________ .She ran to thecomputer. This time there was only a 10. ________ on the screen （屏幕）."IT'S NOT YOURSTORY.IT'S MINE!" it said.（16 ）try, how, what, if, can, won derful , much, shop, glass , read, dow n, putTom lived a way from town. One day he went into town to buy something in the shop, and after he bought 1. he wan ted, he went into a restaura nt and sat 2 . _______ atthe table. When he looked round, he saw some old people 3. ________ e yeglasses on before4. _______ their books, so after lunch he went to a shop to buy5. ________ , too. He walkedalong the road, and soon found a 6. _______ .The man in the shop made him 7. ________ on a lot of glasses, but each time Tom said,“ No, I can ' t read with these. ”The man became 8 . _______ and more puzzled (困惑).At last he said, “ Excuse me, but9. _______ you read at all? ”“ No, I can ' t! ” Tom s0i ___________ I can read, do yoithink I will come here to buyglasses? ”(17 )well, brother, on , ago , I , for , make , needn ' t , as , because , much, beforeIn my spare time, I paint desig ns on T-shirts. I got the idea two years 1 ___________ for my 2.birthday prese nt. The shop wan ted $ 20 for a special desig n _3 ______ a T-shirt, so I decided todo it _4 ________ . I bought a white cotton T-shirt _5 ____________ $6 and some paints, and Ipain ted a lion on the front. My brother loved it!Painting T-shirts is great fun. You 6 _______ be a great artist, you can just paint shapes andlines. The T-shirts are the _7_ _________ expensive part of my hobby. Also you have to usespecial fabric paints and you n eed to buy good quality brushes.I love my hobby _8 _______ I can make T-shirts that no-one else has. I give a lot of themaway _9 _________ prese nts to my family and frien ds. Sometimes, I sell them. Since I started,I ' ve 10 ________ about 60 T-shirts and each one is different.(18 )what, leave, ask, in, driver, someth in g, in side , nu mber, bring, me, howA: Good morning, madam. May I help you?B: Yes, I ' m afraid I _________ my handbag on the taxi this morning!A: What ' & ________ the handbag?B: About 5000 yua n.A: 3 _______ else?B: Yes, my ID card, I thi nk.A: By the way, have you _4 _______ for the taxi ticket?B: Yes, the ticket 5______ is 3456789.A: Well, I ' ll help you to call the ta6 __________ . ( Knocking at the door)B: Come in, please.A: Good morning, sir. I found this handbag on my taxi and I _7________ it here. There ' s much money 8 _________ .B: Thank you very much. (tur ning to the woma n). Is this your han dbag?A: Yes, it 9 s ________ . Thank goodness! 10 ________ a kind man! Thank you.(19 )eat, around , be , of , amuse , difficult, differe nt, probable, gift, but, and, otherHave you ever been to Disneyland? For most of the kids 1 _____________ the world, this2______ park is a fantastic place for them to have fun. When we _3 ___________ young, we allhave heard _4 _________ Mickey Mouse, Sleeping beauty, Snow White and many Disneycharacters. Some of us 5 ____________ have see n them in cartoons. Actually, you can go to seethem all in a theme park. Now, there are four _6 ___________ Disneyland amusement parks allover the world. Two are in the Un ited States, one is in Tokyo, and the _J_ __________ i s in Fran ce.There are not only some amuseme nt attract ions there , _8 _______ also many specials withDisney characters .In Disn eyla nd, you can have a lot of fun watch ing Disney movies, _9 in Disney restaurants, and buying Disney 10 ______________________________ .(20 )choose, across , never, thirst, need, time, play, on, exercises, photo, through differeneeDo you want to be healthier? Then go 1 _____________ the passage, and you may find it ' seasy to keep fit.1) Eat all kinds of foods, especially fruits and vegetables.You may have a favourite kind of food, but the best _2 _________ is to eat as many kindsas possible. If you eat 3 _____________ f oods, you ' rmore likely to get the nutrients your bodyneeds . Taste new foods that you _4 _______________ tried before. Some foods, such as greenvegetables, are very important. Have five servings(份)of fruits and three vegetables.2) Drink water and milk ofte n.When you are really _5 __________ , cold water is the No. 1 choice. Kids need calcium( 钙)togrow strong, and milk is a great source of this mi neral (矿物质).How much do childre n 6 ? About three glasses of milk every day.3) Limit scree n time.What' s creen time? It 'the _Z _________ for watching TV, DVDs, and videos, 8 computergames, and using the computer. If you spe nd much time _9 __________ these activities, you mayhave less time left to take 10 ____ , such as play ing basketball, bicycli ng, and swim ming.答案1.1. good2. Two3. may4. Sa nd5. Srrong6. 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