（一）短文填空。从下面方框中选出10个单词，并将其正确形式填写在答题卡相应题号的位置上，使短文意思正确通顺（每词限用一次）。（共10个小题，每小题1分；计10分）
A calligrapher (书法家) taught handwriting. One of his students often practiced handwriting with old pieces of newspapers. He
_1_______ that he made very little progress _2_______ he had learned for a long time. His teacher said to him, “Why not try _3______ the best paper. Maybe you'll write _4_____.”
The student did as he _5________.It really worked. He made progress not long afterwards and felt _6________.He asked his teacher about the _7________.The calligrapher answered, “When you used old newspapers to practice handwriting, you would think you were writing a draft(草稿). It didn't _8_______ if you wrote badly. Maybe you thought there were plenty of old newspapers to use. In that case you wouldn't pay much _9_________to it. Now you use the best paper and you'll treasure it. Each time you write you feel strongly about the rarity (稀少)of chances and you'll devote all your heart and soul; you'll do the handwriting much more carefully than practicing. Of course you've _10_______ rapid progress.”
Every day of our life is something new. Let us take every day as a piece of the best paper.
(二)短文填空。从下面方框中选出10个单词，并将其正确形式填写在答题卡相应题号的位置上，使短文意思正确通顺（每词限用一次）。（共10个小题，每小题1分；计10分）
In England, recently three foreign 1 came to a bus stop and waited. About five minutes later, the bus they wanted came along. They were just going to get on when suddenly there was a loud noise behind them. People rushed onto the bus and tried to push them out of the way. Someone shouted at them. The bus conductor came rushing down the stairs to see what all the trouble was about. The three foreigners seem all at sea and looked 2 . No one had told them about the British customs of lining up for a bus that the first person who arrives at the bus stop is 3 person to get on the bus.
Learning the language of a country isn't enough. If you want to have a pleasant visit, find out as much as possible about the 4 and customs of your host country. You will probably be surprised just how different they can be from your own. A visitor to India would do well to remember that people there consider it impolite to use the left hand for passing food at table. The left hand is 5 to be used for washing yourself. Also in India, you might see a man shaking his head at another to show that he doesn't agree. But in many parts of India a shake of the head means 6 . Nodding your head when you 7 a drink in Bulgaria will most probably leave you thirsty.
In that country, you shake your head to mean "yes"-a nod means "no". At a meal in countries on the Arabic Peninsula, you will find that your glass is repeated refilled as 8 as you drink up . If you think that you have had enough, you should take the cups or glasses in your hand and give it a little shake from side to side or place your hand
over the top.
In Europe, it is quite usual to 9 your legs when you are sitting talking to someone even at an important meeting. Doing this in Thailand, however, could bring about trouble. Also , you should try to avoid(避免) touching the head of 10 adult---it's just not done in Thailand.
（三）用方框中所给词的适当形式填空，使文章通顺、连贯、合理。
Many large supermarkets are self-service in the UK. When you go into one of these (1) _________, you take a baskets and you put the things you wish to buy (2) _________it. You line up at the cash desk and pay for everything just before you leave.
If anyone tries to take things from a shop (3) _________ paying, they are almost certain to be caught. Most shops have store guards who have the job of (4) _________thieves. Stealing is (5) _________a serious crime by the police and the courts.
When you are waiting to be served in a shop, it is important to wait for your (6) _________. It is (7) _________ to try to be served before people who arrive before you. Many people from foreign countries are (8) _________ at the British habit of lining.
（四）阅读短文，用方框内所给单词的正确形式填空，使短文意思通顺、完整。请将答案写在短文后相应题号的横线上。注意：①每个词只能用一次。②每空限填一词，有些词需要做相应的变化。③其中有两个多余选项。
Do you know the differences between the new building and the old ones?
Old buildings 1 brick(砖)and stone walls.The walls hold up the 2 .
In cities,many modern building 3 as if they are made just of windows.Walls of dark glass reach high into the air.Many buildings are 4 than 50 stories(层)tall.
Are walls of glass strong 5 to hold up the new buildings?No,The new glass walls do not hold up the buildings,6 they only cover up the frame(框架)made of steel.Have you ever watched a new building going up?The steel frame is built 7 .Then the glass walls are hung on the frame.When the building is 8 ,the frame does not show.The outside looks like windows without walls.The glass walls shine 9 the sun with no decoration(装饰).Many people find 10 beautiful just as they are.
2018中考英语选词填空专项练习 1._______ stones. We can see hills, too. There is a little rain in the 2.________, but it is not 3. ______ for most plants. The animals are 4. _______ to the desert people in many ways. The desert people eat the meat and drink the milk of the animals. They use their skins to 5. ________ shoes, water bags and even 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 always look for grass or desert plants for their animals. They usually live in the tents. When there is mo more 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 refuse to help the people in 10._______ and give them food and water. 二选词填空 that quite a lot of people are busy studying them. All around us are birds, animals, trees and flowers. The facts about 2.________ they live and grow are as interesting as anything could be. Do you know that one of the great presidents of the United States 3 ________ hours and hours studying birds? A businessman who lives near New York City became so interested in insects(昆虫) that he began to collect them. He now has more than one thousand different 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 danger. 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 other interesting 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 listen carefully. 三用所给词的适当形式填空 beard(蓄着胡须). Since it has been 2.________ there, he has taken it off (剃掉). But his passport photo shows him with his 3. __ beard ___. An officer looks at the 4. ________for a moment, and says，"Will you excuse me? Please sit down. I shan't keep you long." With this, he walks away, shows the photo to a second 5.________, and says: "I know that face." The second officer looks at the 6. ________ and asks where Mr Hill 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 that man 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 answers, 10. ________, that he did, the first officer smiles and says: "I thought so. I'm Jack Smith. You taught me French. You haven't changed a bit."
Section B Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. accurate B. alteration C. average D. calculates E. conceal F. enormously G. initial H. intervals I. merely J. multiply K. prediction Beyond two or three days, the world’s best weather forecasts are based on guesswork, and beyond six or seven they are worthless. The Butterfly Effect is the reason. For small pieces of weather — and to a global forecaster, small can mean thunderstorms and snowstorms—any ___41___ fails rapidly. Errors and uncertainties ___42___, gathering upward through a chain of unstable features, from dust devils (尘旋风) and windstorms up to continent-size eddies (旋风) ___43___ satellites can see. The modern weather models work with a network of points of the order of sixty miles apart, and even so, some ___44___ data has to be guessed, since ground stations and satellites cannot see everywhere. But suppose the earth could be covered with sensors spaced one foot apart, rising at one-foot ___45___ all the way to the top of the atmosphere. Suppose every sensor gives perfectly ___46___ readings of temperature, meteorologist (气象工作者) would want. pressure, dampness, and any other quantity a Exactly at noon a(n) ___47___ powerful computer takes all the data and ___48___ what will happen at each point at 12.01, then 12.02, then 12.03 … The computer will still be unable to predict whether Princeton, New Jersey, will have sun or rain on a day one month away. At noon the spaces between the sensors will ___49___ alterations that the computer will not know about, tiny variations from the ___50___. By 12.01, those alterations will already have created small errors one foot away. Soon the errors will have multiplied to the ten-foot scale, and so on up to the size of the globe.
资料收集于网络，如有侵权请联系网站删除 社会科学类 The flood of women into the job market boosted economic growth and changed U.S society in many ways. Mary in-home jobs that used to be done --47-- by women-ranging from damily shopping to preparing meals to doing --48-- work-still need to be done by someone. Husbands and children now do some of these jobs, a --49-- that has changed the target market for many products. Or a working woman may face acrushing "poverty of time" and look for help elsewhere, creating opportunities for producers of frozen meals, child care centers, dry cleaners, financial services, and the like. Although there is still a big wage --50--between men and women,the income working women--51-- gives them new independence and buying power.For example,Women now --52--about half of all cars.Not long ago,many cars dealers--53--women shoppers by ignoring them or suggesting that they come back with their husbands.Now car companies have realized that wormen are --54-- customers.It's interesting that some leading japanese car dealers were the first to --55--pay attention to women customers.In japan,fewer wormen have jobs or buy cars --tje ka[amese spcoety is still very much male-oriented.Perhaps it was the --56-- contrast with japanese society the prompted American firms to pay more attention to women buyers. A} scale B)retailed C)generate D)extreme E)technically F)affordable G)situation H)really I)potential J) gap K) voluntary L)excessive M)insulted N) purchase O)primarily 2 经济类 When Michael North bought a house in Edina three years ago, the housing market was so competitive. North made a full-price____1 the day the house was put up for sale. Many other buyers unfortunately,had to offer a much highter price than the sellera asked because there were too many other buyers2____to buy the houses. Taday Michael is wondering where all the _____1 buyers went. He’s trying to sell the ＄350,000 house,but arfter the prcie was____4 for four times and four months on said North.. He is now buying another house for ＄50,000 less than the ______5price that the seller set. As North has found out, now it seems to be a buyer’s market. With mortagage_________6rates still near all-time lows, the housing market continues to help the state’s economy. Yet the number of new and existing house has climbed_________7higher than in recent years, allowing buyers to take their time and be choosier. According to a study of the housing market, 14 percent more _________8 agreements were signed in March than a year earlier. But the ______9 time from the day the house was put on the market till it was sold was almost 65days. It was a time much longer than ________10 years. A steadily B average C previous D bid E interest F significantly G original H discounted I purchase J competing K present L contending M smash N obtain O complicated 3 文化教育类 ttwennty-year-old college____1 at a state university. Now, only three years later Lisa is miserable. She has _______2 her major four times and is forced to hold down two part-time jobs in order to pay her tuition. She suffers from sleeping and eating disorders and has no -----friend. Sometimes she burst out crying for no _____4 reason. What is happening to millions of college students each year. As a result, roughly one-quarter of the student population at any tme will suffer from______5 of depression. Half of them will experience depression intense enough to call for_______6help. But many of them________7the idea because they don’t want people to think there is something wrong with them. There are two reasons today’s college students are suffering more than in earlier generatons. First is a word可编辑
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【揭秘奉献】2012上海中考英语新题型精练（共9套）2012年上海中考英语题型已确定，词汇与语法部分新增选词填空题，根据文章意思，选择方框中最恰当的词语，不需要进行词性转换。但也增加不少难度，首先需要读懂文章，才能选择最正确的词，以下为2012年上海中考英语新题型选词填空专项练习，供学生学习参考。 2012年上海中考英语新题型专项练习——选词填空1 destroy(毁坏) whole cities. First, it is not a 1 .________ idea to build houses along lines where 2. ________ of the earth's 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 the houses as 5. ________ as possible. Weak buildings will fall down in an earthquake, but strong ones may 6. ________ Scientists are 7. ________ that one day an even bigger earthquake will hit the part around San Francisco(旧金山) . They call it " The Big One ". However, people today are still building more 8. ________ . The population in and around San Francisco is 9. ________ ten times more than it was in 1906. This means that 10. ________ there is another earthquake, a great many houses and buildings will be destroyed. 参考答案： 1.good 2.two 3.may 4.sand 5.strong 6.stayup 7.afraid 8.houses 9.now 10.if 2012年上海中考英语新题型专项练习——选词填空2 forget, bring，mend，beside，luck，pick，same，differently, I ，every , stop，each Mr. Brown had an umbrella shop in a small town. People sometimes 1 ________ him
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Section B Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. Beyond two or three days, the world’s best weather forecasts are based on guesswork, and beyond six or seven they are worthless. The Butterfly Effect is the reason. For small pieces of weather — and to a global forecaster, small can mean thunderstorms and snowstorms—any ___41___ fails rapidly. Errors and uncertainties ___42___, gathering upward through a chain of unstable features, from dust devils (尘旋风) and windstorms up to continent-size eddies (旋风) ___43___ satellites can see. The modern weather models work with a network of points of the order of sixty miles apart, and even so, some ___44___ data has to be guessed, since ground stations and satellites cannot see everywhere. But suppose the earth could be covered with sensors spaced one foot apart, rising at one-foot ___45___ all the way to the top of the atmosphere. Suppose every sensor gives perfectly ___46___ readings of temperature, pressure, dampness, and any other quantity a meteorologist (气象工作者) would want. Exactly at noon a(n) ___47___ powerful computer takes all the data and ___48___ what will happen at each point at 12.01, then 12.02, then 12.03 … The computer will still be unable to predict whether Princeton, New Jersey, will have sun or rain on a day one month away. At noon the spaces between the sensors will ___49___ alterations that the computer will not know about, tiny variations from the ___50___. By 12.01, those alterations will already have
社会科学类 The flood of women into the job market boosted economic growth and changed U.S society in many ways. Mary in-home jobs that used to be done --47-- by women-ranging from damily shopping to preparing meals to doing --48-- work-still need to be done by someone. Husbands and children now do some of these jobs, a --49-- that has changed the target market for many products. Or a working woman may face acrushing "poverty of time" and look for help elsewhere, creating opportunities for producers of frozen meals, child care centers, dry cleaners, financial services, and the like. Although there is still a big wage --50--between men and women,the income working women--51-- gives them new independence and buying power.For example,Women now --52--about half of all cars.Not long ago,many cars dealers--53--women shoppers by ignoring them or suggesting that they come back with their husbands.Now car companies have realized that wormen are --54-- customers.It's interesting that some leading japanese car dealers were the first to --55--pay attention to women customers.In japan,fewer wormen have jobs or buy cars --tje ka[amese spcoety is still very much male-oriented.Perhaps it was the --56-- contrast with japanese society the prompted American firms to pay more attention to women buyers. A} scale B)retailed C)generate D)extreme E)technically F)affordable G)situation H)really I)potential J) gap K) voluntary L)excessive M)insulted N) purchase O)primarily 2 经济类 When Michael North bought a house in Edina three years ago, the housing market was so competitive. North made a full-price____1 the day the house was put up for sale. Many other buyers unfortunately,had to offer a much highter price than the sellera asked because there were too many other buyers2____to buy the houses. Taday Michael is wondering where all the _____1 buyers went. He’s trying to sell the ＄350,000 house,but arfter the prcie was____4 for four times and four months on said North.. He is now buying another house for ＄50,000 less than the ______5price that the seller set. As North has found out, now it seems to be a buyer’s market. With mortagage_________6rates still near all-time lows, the housing market continues to help the state’s economy. Yet the number of new and existing house has climbed_________7higher than in recent years, allowing buyers to take their time and be choosier. According to a study of the housing market, 14 percent more _________8 agreements were signed in March than a year earlier. But the ______9 time from the day the house was put on the market till it was sold was almost 65days. It was a time much longer than ________10 years. A steadily B average C previous D bid E interest F significantly G original H discounted I purchase J competing K present L contending M smash N obtain O complicated 3 文化教育类 ttwennty-year-old college____1 at a state university. Now, only three years later Lisa is miserable. She has _______2 her major four times and is forced to hold down two part-time jobs in order to pay her tuition. She suffers from sleeping and eating disorders and has no -----friend. Sometimes she burst out crying for no _____4 reason. What is happening to millions of college students each year. As a result, roughly one-quarter of the student population at any tme will suffer from______5 of depression. Half of them will experience depression intense enough to call for_______6help. But many of them________7the idea because they don’t want people to think there is something wrong with them. There are two reasons today’s college students are suffering more than in earlier generatons. First is a weakening family support------8. Today, with high divorce rate, the traditional family is not always availble for support. Another problem is 9____pressure. In the last decade tuition cost rose about sixty-six percent at public colleges and ninty percent at private schools. ________10,most students must work at least part-time. It can be depressng to students to be faced with the added tuition costs.
中考复习英语短文填空练习短文填空 A Only Mother Love is true love . It gives everybody everything all 1. life. When you are still a baby mother takes good 2. of you as possible . you are waking hours she 3. holds you in her arms. When you are ill she stops her work right now to look after you day and night 4. forgets about herself. When you are growing up day 5. day she feels very happy. When you are old enough to go to school mother still looks after you all the time. On cold winter days she always tells you to put on more clothes. She always stands in the wind 6. for you back from school. When you hurry to leave home for school with little breakfast she always feels7. about you at home. She usually knows about your study and spends much money on your school things. When you do well at school you will see the brightest smile on her face. Mother is always ready to give everything she 8. to her children9. to receive. What true love that is in the 10. We will remember Mother Love for ever 1h_______ 2p______ 3w_______ 4a________ 5b_______ 6w_______ 7w______ 8h_______ 9n________ 10w_______ II.短文填空1x10 阅读下面的短文并根据其内容在空白处填入一个适当的词使其完整通顺More and more people are__________ the life with computers. Using computers you can send E-mail__________ and easily. You are able to send a letter with pictures and sounds to someone ___________in the world without putting a stamp. E-mail can send its message to the other side of the world__________ seconds秒. E-mail is easy to use and it________ time and money. It serves服务for twenty-four hours. So it doesn’t matter if your friends are in bed when you send E-mail to them or you are seeing a film at the cinema when they send E-mail________. Can you imagine想象the future without teachers_________ computers Students will teach themselves in the schools of the future. Computers help students develop their own ways of________. Students will follow the learning programes by looking at online libraries and_________ lessons by world-class teachers. If they don’t understand something they will ask other students___________ or E-mail their teachers. Computers are becoming more and more popular indeed. 1. _______ 2. ________ 3. _________ 4. ________ 5. _________ 6. _______ 7. ________ 8. _________ 9. ________ 10. _________ III. 阅读下面短文给改写后的短文空白处填人一个适当的词使其完整通顺 1x10。甘肃省2005年中考382test12 All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports are good for peoples health. Many people like to watch others play sports games. They buy tickets or turn on their TV sets to sit in front of them. Sports change with the seasons. People play different games in different seasons. Sometimes they play inside the room. Sometimes they play outside. We can find sports here and there. Some sports are rather interesting and people everywhere like them.. Football for example is very popular in the world. People from different countries cannot understand each other but after a game they often become very friendly to each other. You know _________1 the world people enjoy sports. Sports are _________2 for people in ___________3 seasons. People can do sports inside or __________4 the room. Some people like to watch __________5people play sports games. They buy_________6 or turn on their TV sets to ___________7 the games. Some sports are so__________8 that people all enjoy them. Football is very ___________9in the world. People often become good ____________10after a game. 1. _______ 2. ________ 3. _________ 4. ________ 5. _________ 6. _______ 7. ________ 8. _________ 9. ________ 10. ________ _ IV.阅读短文根据短文内容用所给词的适当形式填空。每词只能使用一次2005年大连市中考help late early policeman sing problems but how lost smile Paula was going to a birthday party.