专项练习一、选词填空：从所给单词中选出单词，并用其适当形式填入短文空格内，使短文意思正确、通顺<每次限用一次)。

<一)<forget, bring ，mend，beside，luck ，pick ，same，I ，stop，each) PtNF8kZHCbMr. Brown had an umbrella shop in a small town. People sometimes 1 _______ him broken umbrellas,and then he took them to a big shop in London. They were 2 _______ there. PtNF8kZHCbOne day Mr. Brown went to London by train. He 3 _______ to take an umbrella with him that day. Sitting infront of him was a man with an umbrella standing 4 ______ the seat. When the train arrived in London, Mr.Brown 5 ______ up the umbrella as he often did during his journey by train. Just as he was getting off, hewas 6 ________ by the man. He said angrily, “7__T_h_a_t _'__s ! ” Mr. Brown ' s face turned red and hegave it back to the man at once. PtNF8kZHCbWhen Mr Brown got to the big shop, the shopkeeper had got his six umbrellas ready. After a good look at 8 of them, he said, _______ “ You' ve mended them v P e tN ry F8w k e ZH ll.Cb”In the afternoon he got into the train again. The 9 ________ man was in the same seat. He looked at MrBrown and his six umbrellas, “ You' ve had a day, ” hesa t d F8kZHCb<二)<tell, hear, guard, drum, much, fly , army, with, other, way ) PtNF8kZHCbHere 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 Egyptians to send messages.PtNF8kZHCb People in 4. countries sent message, too. When enemies came, one man beat his drum. In the nextvillage 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 a pigeon along. He could tie a message to the bird 's leg. It would_f_ly_b_a_c_k__9. the soldier 's m e P s t s N a F g8 k e Z. H C bThese are shown ways to send messages. Can you think of more 10. _______ ?PtNF8kZHCb<三)< well , second , may , strongly, afraid, sand , stay up, if, now, house ) PtNF8kZHCbWe can 'stop an earthquake(地震>,but we can do things to make sure they don 毁坏>cWteO1oy(cities. First, it is not a 1. ______ idea to build houses along lines where 2. ___________ of the earth '板plates(块> join together. Second, if you think there 3. ____________ be an earthquake, it is better to build houses onrocks< 岩石) , not on 4. ____________ . Third, you must make the houses as 5. __________ as possible. Weakbuildings will fall down in an earthquake, but strong ones may 6. _______ . PtNF8kZHCbScientists are 7. ___________ that one day an even bigger earthquake will hit the part around SanFrancisco(旧金山> .They call it “ The Big One ” . However, paopfetitbblayding more 8. _______ .The population in and around San Francisco is 9. ________ te n times more than it was in 1906. This meansthat 10. _________ there is another earthquake, a great many houses and buildings will bedestroyed.PtNF8kZHCb<四)<they, careful, be, fact, take, would, other, stand, what, decide )PtNF8kZHCbI'm eighteen years old this year. I 1 . ________ a pupil before and now I 'm a university student. My motherwas my first teacher when I was very little. Then, I had three 2. ________ teachers in different schools. NowMiss Williams is one of my university teachers. PtNF8kZHCbI have n ever expected that I will be a teacher one day. I am a shy girl and I am afraid of 3. ____ beforemany people. I do not know 4. _____________ to say. But I will be a teacher tomorrow! Tomorrowmorning! PtNF8kZHCbI made this 5. _____ just two weeks ago. Miss Williams, my En glish teacher, told me there was a teacher job,just for two weeks in this summer. She asked if I 6. _______ be in terested. I wan ted to make some mon ey, so Isaid yes" to her. At once I regretted but it was too late to 7. _______ m y word back. PtNF8kZHCbThere are about twenty foreign boys and girls in the class. They know very little English. I have8. ______ read the book that Williams gave me. Four of the less ons are very simple, in 9. ______ too simple. Ido not know what to do with these few simple words and senten ces. I will read the less on to them, and ask them to read after me, and the n ask them to read it 10. _____________________ . That will be about ten minu tes. What shall Ido next?PtNF8kZHCb<五)<how, they ,winter, spend, care , dance , show , open , only, good ) PtNF8kZHCbThe world of the out-of doors is full of secrets. And 1. _____________ a re so interesting that quite a lot ofpeople 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 interesting as anything could be. PtNF8kZHCbDo you know that one of the great preside nts of the Un ited States 3 ______ hours and hours 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 collectthem. He now has more than one thousand different kinds 4. _______ kept in the glass boxes. PtNF8kZHCb 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 where they can find food. I will 7. _______________ you many otherinteresting things, but the 8. _______ thing that I can teach you is to keep your eyes and ears 9. _____________when you go out of doors. Nature tells her secrets 10. _________________ to people who look and listencarefully. PtNF8kZHCb二、首字母填空：根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词，使短文意思完整。