2020广东中考英语短文填空专项练习.doc

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(A篇)Mozart’s music is popular all over the world. It’s neither too (1)___________ nor too slow. It can (2)___________ you up when you are sad, calm you down when you are nervous. The power of his music is far beyond our imagination.
Once, (3)___________ newly-born baby called Krissy weighed only 5.4 pounds at birth. Doctors all said she had (4)____________ chance to live long. But her mother didn’t think so. She kept playing Mozart for Krissy and deeply believed it would (5)___________ her daughter’s life. Surprisingly, Krissy survived(活下来). At the age of four, she became very fond (6)___________ music and her parents gave her violin lessons. Soon, Krissy’s musical talent was discovered. She was (7)___________ to play many musical pieces in just a month. Of course, all of them were Mozart’s. Playing music also helped her improve in all areas of her life. She now has become a famous musician in America.
Mozart’s music is helpful in other cases. It is said that people can learn a new language more (8)___________ when they listen to Mozart. In France, cows listening to Mozart usually produce more (9)____________.
(10)___________ does Mozart’s music has such a great power? Listen to it by heart and maybe you’ll find out the secret.

(B篇) Have you thought of moving to another planet? An American company now has a new plan: sending people to Mars (1)i____________ twenty years.
To begin with, the company plans to (2)s_____________ a few people to Mars first. It will (3)t_____________ them months to get there.
But Mars is not a (4)g_____________ place to live on. It’s rocky(多岩石的), cold and has lots of sandstorms(沙尘暴). Also, there is (5)n_____________ air for breath. So people have to live in a special house. There is air in it. They have to (6)w_____________ special clothes when they go outside.
(7)H_______________ would people live there? They have to make daily things like knives. They will have to (8)f_____________ useful resources(资源). There is CO2 in the air, water in the ice and some other useful things. All these could help people live there…Sounds (9)i________________? You might want to go to Mars now. (10)B_______________ will things go well as the company hopes? We have to wait and see.

(C篇) When we think of Hollywood, we think of films and famous film stars. They’re part of Hollywood’s (1)h______________. Today people (2)m_______________ films in other places, too. Not all famous films start in Hollywood. But Hollywood is (3)s_______________ a very special city in Los Angeles, California.
You can easily see (4)w_______________ Hollywood is in Los Angeles. There is a big sign on the hills. It says “HOLLYWOOD”. The white letters are fifty feet (5)t________________. You can see the sign (6)f________________ far away. The Hollywood sign is a famous Hollywood landmark in Los Angeles. Many (7)p_______________ show this famous Hollywood landmark.
In the hills of Hollywood, there is also the Hollywood Bowl. This is an open-air theatre. It is one of the (8)l_____________ in the world. It has seventeen thousand (9)s_______________ and a very different stage. The design of the stage was by a great American called Frank Lcoyd Wright. You can listen to all (10)k________________ of concerts at the Hollywood Bowl.

(D篇) John (1)_______________ animals very much. One day he asked his grandpa (2)_____________ take him to the zoo. When they got there, they were (3)_____________ to see that there were not any animals. They (4)_____________ to leave the zoo. On (5)______________ way back home, they passed the Game Restaurant. They (6)_____________ that many animals were kept in a cage. At that time, they came to know (7)______________ there were fewer and (8)______________ animals. John thought he should do something to (9)_______________ the animals (10)______________ then on.

(E篇)Have you ever been to Beijing, the capital of China? I think it is one of the (1)g_______________ cities in the world. The Greens have (2)b_____________ in Beijing (3)f_______________ the summer vacation. They enjoyed (4)v______________ there. They (5)h_____________ been to many great places. During the first two days, they went to Tian’anmen Square. It’s very large and there were many people taking (6)p____________ there. Next, they went to Beihai Park. They went (7)b_____________ there and had a boat race with other visitors. They had a good time. The Great Wall is one of the (8)m______________ famous places of (9)i______________ in the world. They climbed the Great Wall for the whole day. There were so many people on the Great Wall. The Greens (10)w______________ very excited and they took lots of pictures there.

(F篇) Mr. Smith (1)_____________ in a village. He had a (2)_____________ farms and about twenty people worked for him. He often told them (3) ______________ work hared and be honest(诚实的).
One day he went to a farm and worked with the workers there. Soon it was time (4)____________ lunch. He put some nice bread on the table and went out. A few minutes (5)______________ he came back again but he (6)________________ find the bread.
“Who ate the bread on the table?” he shouted.
Some of the (7)_______________answered, “We didn’t.”
The others said, “We saw (8)_________________.”
“Well,” said Mr. Smith, “ (9)_________________ are a lot of mice in the rooms, you know. So I put some poison(毒药) in the bread. If they eat, they must die. Then I can kill them.”
As (10)______________ as he finished , four workers began to cry. “Oh, dear!”
“What’s wrong with you?” asked Mr. Smith.
“We ate the (11)_______________ when you were out. We are going to die.” One of them cried.
“Don’t worry,” Mr. Smith said (12)______________ a smile. “I only play a trick on you. Use your head.”

(G篇) It is well-known that man is much cleverer than any animal. But which is the cleverest (1)a_____________ the animals? Some scientists (2)t_____________ it should be Alex, an African grey parrot. He is unlike any other animal. He can really (3)t____________ with people!
When he says “come here”, he really (4)w_____________ someone to come up to him.
“Alex is as clever as a (5)c____________ of 2 or 3 years old,” says Dr. Peter. “He does not just repeat the (6)s_____________ he has been taught. He (7)u____________ the words!”
Alex can tell about 50 (8)d_____________ things, name(叫出) colours and count from 1 to 6. Is the parrot actually(事实上) thinking in the (9)w_____________ how man does? Nobody can say. But the (10)q_____________ is very interesting.

(H篇) In England, people often talk about the (1)w_____________ because they can experience(经历) four (2)s____________ in one day. In the morning the weather is warm just like in spring. An hour (3)l_____________, black clouds come and then it (4)r_______________ hard. The weather gets a little cold. In the late afternoon the sky will be sunny, the sun will begin to (5)s______________, and it will be summer at this time of year.
In England, people can also have (6)s_______________ winter, or have winter in summer. So in winter they can swim sometimes, while they need to take (7)w_______________ clothes in summer sometimes.
When you go to England, you will see that some English people usually take an (8)u_______________ or a raincoat with them in the sunny morning, but you should not (9) l______________ at them.
(10)I_______________ you don’t take an umbrella or a raincoat, you will regret(后悔) later in the day.

（I篇）“When is the best time to visit Australia?” Many people ask me very often. (1)______________ it seems(似乎) easy, it is hard to answer it actually.
It probably depends on(取决于) (2)_______________ you want to go. Someone says the best time to visit Australia (3)________________ be in October or November, because the (4)_______________ is not very hot or cold at that time. (5)________________ , Australia is quite large from northwest (6)_______________ southeast and it lies in several climate zones(气候带). It’s about thousands of miles from east to west, so you should (7)________________ about it before you decide where to go.
It also depends on what kind of activities you are (8) _______________ in. The weather will be more important if you want to go ice (9)_________________ or if you (10)_________________ to go swimming.
In my opinion, any time is a good time to visit Australia.