致远英语——中考专项训练之选词填空精选A篇学员姓名：日期：©BEYOND ENGLISHPassage AOne day, a student was talking with a professor (教授), who’s kind to those who waited on his 1________.As they went along, they saw a pair of old shoes 2________ on the path (小路), which, they supposed, belonged to a poor man working in a nearby field (田地). He had neatly finished his 3___ ___ work.The student came to a stop, and said to the professor, “Let’s play a hoax on the man: we hide his shoes, hide ourselves and wait to see how 4_____ he would be when he finds that his shoes are 5________ .”“My friend,” answered the professor, “We should never enjoy ourselves while making the poor sad. Now you are rich, why not give yourself a much greater 6__ _ __ by helping the poor man? Put a coin into each shoe, hide ourselves and see what will happen to him.”The student did so, and they both places themselves behind the nearby trees.After finishing his work, the poor man came across the field to the path. Putting his foot into one of his shoes, he felt something unusual. He stopped 7 _____ what it was and he found the coin.He took out the coin, surprised, and looked at it 8 ______ for a while. Then he looked around, but 9 ______ was there. Then he started to put on the other shoe. He got much more surprises when he found the other coin.The poor man then looked up into the sky and shouted “Thank You!” The student stood there with tears (眼泪) in his eyes. “Now,” said the professor, “aren’t you more pleased than if you had played 10 ___ _ planned hoax?”“You’ve taught me a lesson which I will never forget,” answered the student.Passage BWorried That People Are Laughing at You?Imagine this situation. You pass a group of people. The people are talking to each other. You cannot hear what they are saying. But 1 they start laughing. What would you think? Would you think they were laughing at something 2 that one of them said? Or, to be honest with yourself, would you think they were laughing at you? Yes, you.Being laughed at is a 3 fear. But a major study published(公布) in 2009 found that this fear is not the 4 around the world, it differs from culture to culture.Some people in the study said they felt unsure of 5 in social situations and hid their feelings of insecurity (不安全). Others said they avoided (回避) social situations where they had been laughed at 6 .Shy people often avoid situations that would make them get into close contact (接触) with other people. They worry that something they say or do will make otherpeople laugh at them, It can be truly sad for those who live with the fear of laughter. It can 7 how they lead their lives.In the study, a team from the University of Zurich led more than ninety 8from around the world. They wanted to understand the difference between normal shyness and true fear of being laughed at. Another purpose of the study was 9the levels of fear of being laughed at in different cultures. The scientists surveyed more than twenty-two thousand people in forty-two different languages. The 10 would appear in Scientific Humor.Once there was a teacher who took all his students for tea. What made the students 1 was that all the cups on the table were 2 . Each of them took a cup and started 3 their own tea, looking at the 4 cups.The teacher said; "Do you notice your 5 ? You are all looking at each other's tea cups and 6 of you even envy (羡慕) the 7 cups of others." Then he went on: "I put the different cups here on purpose! Life is like 8 tea. You all have the same thing in your cups— tea. And yet you can't 9 enjoy it in your envy of another's cup. You forget 10 your own life when you envy someone else's life. So now, taste your own tea! Does it matter from which cup it comes from?"Passage DIt was already late when we started for the next town, which according to the1 _was about fifteen miles away on the other side of the hill. There we felt 2that we would find a bed for the night. Soon 3 fell after we left the village, but 4 ,we met no one as we drove fast along the narrow road that 5 to the hill. As our car climbed 6 , it became colder and the rain began to fall, making it difficult to see the road.After we had travelled for about twenty miles, there was still no 7 of the town which was marked on the map, we were beginning to get 8 .Then, the car suddenly stopped. A quick examination showed that we had used up the gas. Although we had little food with us, we decided to spend the night in the car.Our meal was soon 9 , and then I tried to go to sleep at once, but John, who was a poor sleeper, got out of the car after a few minutes and went for a walk up the hill. Soon he found, in the valley below, the 10 of the town we were looking for. We at once pushed the car to the top of the hill. In less than a quarter of an hour, we were in the town.Passage EAn old man lived in a side street of a small town. Every day after supper, some children would play football in the street. The children were too 1 for the old man to have a good rest.One evening, the old man told the children that he would give them 25 cents each week 2 them play football in the street at night. He said, “I am so glad when you. The boys were 4 , for they could believe that they could to do something they enjoyed.At the end of the two weeks, the boys came to the old man’s house, and went away each time happily with 8 25 cents. The third week when they came back, however, the old man said he had nearly run out of his money and 9 them away with 15 cents. The fourth week, the old man said he was ill and he had spent almost all his money on medicine. He gave the boys only 10 cents. The boys were very 10 , but there was not much for them to do about it.At the end of the fifth week, the boys came back again only to get 5 cents. After that, the children never played football in the street again.。