初三英语完形填空专题训练(含答案共20篇).doc

九年级英语短文综合填空提高训练20篇

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Can animals be made to work for us ? Some scientists think that one day animals may be ____ to do a number of simple jobs .They ____ that in a film or on TV we may see elephants , monkeys ,dogs ,bears ,or other animals doing a lot of things .If you _____ carefully , you may find that those animals are given something to eat in return for ____ them . The scientists say that many _____ animals may be taught to do a number of simple jobs if they will get something to eat .
Of course, as we know , dogs can be used to guard a house ,and elephants can be used to do some heavy ___ . And we can also teach animals to work in ____ .Apes ,for example have ____ used in America to help make cars and scientists _____ that these monkeys may one day get in crops and ____ drive trains .

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Do you have a pet? Are you _____ in taking care of animals? Girls and boys who like animals may want to study to be animal doctors.They are often _____“vets ”. Many of them work in animal _____. Others may work on farms or at a _____. Some study animal diseases and try to find _____ to keep the animals from getting i______. They do studies in _____ for animals.Vets listen to an animals’s ______. They check its ears, eyes, mouth and blood. They ______ on animals when they need to. They may give the animals shots(注射) and tell the pets’ _____ what food is best.

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When I was walking down the street one day , I ______ a small bag on the ground . I picked it up and opened it to see _______ I could find out the owner’s name . There was _______ inside it except some dollars and a picture of a woman and a young girl about twelve years old . I put the photo back and took the bag to the police station . Before I left , the policeman wrote down my name and my _______ . He thought the owner might want to thank me .
That evening I went to have dinner with my aunt and uncle . They had also asked a young woman to have dinner with us . Her face was familiar , but I couldn’t _______ where I had seen her. ________ our talk , the young woman happened to say that she had _______ her bag that afternoon . All at once I remembered _______ I had seen her . She was the young girl in the photo . though she looked now much ______ than the girl in the picture . She was very _______ , of course , when I told her about the bag . After dinner we went to the police station and got back her bag . The policeman said to me , “It’s a wonderful thing . You found not only the bag , but also the owner of the bag .” 

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Only mother love is true love. It gives _________ everything all his life.
When you are still a baby, mother takes good care of you as much as possible. In your waking hours she always holds you in her arms. When you are ill, she stops her work right now to look after you day and __________ and forgets about herself. When you are growing up day by day, she feels very happy.
When you are old __________ to go to school, mother still looks after you all the _______ . On cold winter days, she always tells you to _______ on more clothes. She always stands in the wind waiting for you back from school every day. When you hurry to leave home for school with little _________  . She always feels worried about you at home. She ________  knows about you study and spend much money on your school things. When you do well at school , you will see the brightest __________ on her face. Mother can do everything for you day after day.
Mother is always ready to give everything she has to her children, not to receive. What true love that is in the w________ ! We will ____________ Mother Love for ever!

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Seumas Mcsporran is a very ____  man. He is 60 years old and he has thirteen jobs. He is a postman , a policeman ,a fireman , a taxi driver , a school-bus driver , a boatman ,an ambulance man , an accountant , a petrol attendant , a barman , and an undertaker .Also , he and his wife , Margaret , have a shop and a small hotel.Seumas _____  and works on the island of Gigha in the west of Scotland. Only 120 people live on Gigha but in _____  150 tourists come by _____  every day.Every weekday Seumas gets up at six and makes _____  for the hotel guests. At eight he drives the island’s children to _____ .  At nine he collects the post from the boat and delivers it to all the houses on the island. He also delivers the beer to the island’s only pub. Then he helps Margaret in the _____ .He says：“Margaret likes being busy,too.We _____  have holidays and we don’t like _____  television. In the evening Margaret makes supper and I do the accounts. At ten we have a glass of wine and then we go to bed. P_____  our life isn’t very exciting, but we like it.”

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Tim spent in a bookshop can be enjoyable . If you go to a good ________ , no assistant will come near to you and say , “Can I ______ you ?” You needn’t buy ________ you don’t want . You may try to find out where the book you want is . But if you _______ , the assistant will lead you there and then he will go away . It seems that he is not interested _____ selling any books at all .
There is a story which _______ us about a good shop . A medical student found a very useful book in a shop , but it is too expensive for him to ______ . He couldn’t get it from the library , _______ . So every afternoon he went there to ______ a little at a time . One day , however , he couldn’t find the book from its usual place and was leaving when he saw an assistant signing to him . To his ________ , the assistant pointed to the book in a corner , “I put it there so as not to be sold out .”said the assistant . Then he let the student go on with his reading .

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( S=salesgirl ; H=Han mei )
S: Good morning. Can I help you ?
H: Yes. I ______ this blouse last week, but there's something wrong with it. When I _____ it, the colours ran. I can't _____ it now. I want you to _____ this blouse or give me my _____ back.
S: Let me see. Did you wash it in _____ water ?
H: Of course not.
S: It ______ as if it hasn't been washed following the _______ .Did you leave it in water ______ you washed it ?
H: No, I didn't do that, ______. I didn't put it cold water until I washed it.

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When you go to England you may find the traffic there is different from ours. As a _______ you must be _______ in the streets, because the traffic ______ on the left. You must look to the right and then the left before you cross a street.
    In the morning and in the evening when people go to or come back from work, the streets are very ______.  traffic is most _______ then.
When you go by bus in England, you have to take care, too. Always ______ the traffic ______ on the left. You have to ______ a look first or you will go to the _______ way.
In many English cities there are big buses with twof ______. You can sit on the second one. From there you can see the city very well.

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Which animal do we need _______? Dogs? Horses? No! The _______ to the question is cows.Why cows? Cows give us milk. And milk is one of our most important _______ of food.
Suppose(假设)that all the milk cows make in one year were put _______ bottles. And suppose these bottles were put side by side. The line of bottles would go all around the world 400 _______.That is a lot of milk, less than half of it is used for _______ and cooking. Most of it is _______ to make butter cheese, ice cream and many other things. It takes many cows to give us that _______ milk. But not as many as it used to. A cow used to give only about 1,500 quarts (夸脱) of milk a year. Now a fine cow may _______ more than 3,000 quarts in a year.
Why do cows give more milk today? Now farmers have better cows. The cows get better _______ and better food.

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Here’s a part of an e-mail answer from Joe giving some advice to his son in college . “When I was young , I often met ________  about what to do and what not to do . My grandmother told me not to worry about those things . I ________  did them once a year or once a lifetime . ___________   , I should try to do well those things , and I do them every day . For example , I need to eat every day , so I should learn how to ___________ . I need to talk to __________  every day , so I should learn how to work with ___________  people and know how to ___________  well . I walk every day , so my ___________  should be all right and comfortable . Every night I sleep , so my bed should let me have a good rest . Taking care of the ___________  things ___________  that you do a better job of the one in a lifetime things as well .”

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Let me tell you a story . A good friend of mine lives with six hundred animals on an island . Ever _____ he left school , he has travelled all over the world ______ for animals for his own zoo . He writes books about his travels , and about his wonderful ______ . The money for his books helps him to _______  for all the animal food . My friend told me that when he was looking for water last week (There is not enough water on the island , though there is a lot all around it ) , he ______ oil. He ______ money for his travels and for his zoo , and a little oil would buy ______ water for a long time , but he knows that if he tells anybody else about it , it will be the ______ of his zoo and his life’s work . So I think he will not tell anybody ______ you and me about what he found — because oil and water can’t be ______ together . Oil may bring greater trouble to his animals than not having enough water . Do you think so ?

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Can animals be made to work for people ? Some scientists think that one day animals may be trained to do a number of simple jobs _________ of people . They say that at a circus（杂技场）， for __________, we may see elephants , monkeys , dogs and other animals doing ________ skillful things . Perhaps you have seen them on the television or in a film . If you watch closely , you may find that the trainer （驯兽员） always ________ the animal some sugar o r a piece of fruit as a reward . The scientists say that many _________  animals may be trained to do a lot of simple things if they know they will get a reward ________   doing that .
    Of course , as we know , dogs can be trained to __________ after a house  , and soldiers in both old and modern ______ have used geese to give warning （警报）by _________ a lot of noise when an enemy comes near . And also it may be possible to train animals to work in families or ____________ .

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The ________ means the earth ,the sun , the moon and the stars and the space b________ them .Many of the stars are so _____ away that we can not see them . The moon , our satellite , travels ______ the earth . It has already been visited ______ man from the earth . Man-made satellites have been sent up ______ space by many countries .They go round the earth . They are used for helping us to learn more ______ the earth , the weather and other things . They are also used for sending and _______ messages . It makes people _______ different countries understand each other much better . So people say the world itself is becoming a much _____ place. People call the small place “the global village ”.

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If you don’t use your arms or your legs for some time , they will become weak ; when you start using them again , they will gradually （逐渐地）become stronger again . Everybody knows this . Yet many people do not seem to know that it is the ______  with memory . When someone says that he has a good memory , he really means that he ______  give it enough chance to become stronger.
If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak , we ______  that it is his own fault . But if he tells us that he has a poor memory , many of us think that his ______  are to blame , and ______  of us know that it is just his own fault.
Have you ______  found some people can’t read or write but they usually have ______  memories ? This is ______  they cannot read or write and they ______  to remember things ; they cannot write them down in a little notebook . They must remember dates , names , songs and stories ; so their memory is the whole time being exercised.
So if you want a good memory , ______  from these people : practise remembering .

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Henry was worried. This was his first time to go traveling by air. He did not know _____ to find his seat, so he went to the air hostess and asked, “Could you help me? I can’t find my seat.” The air hostess _____ him the seat and told him to sit _____ and fasten the seat belt. She told Henry not to ______ about when the plane was going up. And she also said that Henry’s ears might feel a little ______, but he didn’t need to worry about it _______ many people felt like that. When the plane was _______ very high, Henry could stand up and walk round. He could ______ read books, newspapers or see films. The air hostess would _____ food and drinks. Henry could ______ the flight and arrived home soon.

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In China, more and more middle school students are getting shorter sleeping time than before. Most students sleep less than nine ___________ every night because they have much homework to _________. Some homework is ________ by their teachers, and _______ by their parents. Also, some students don’t know how save________. They are not __________ enough while they do their homework, so it _________ them a lot of time. Some students spend too much time on __________TV programmes or playing computer games, they stay __________ very late. Some students have to get up __________ every morning on weekdays to get to school on time by bus or bike. It can be a long way from home to school.

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In the old days, London was __________ as a city of fog. The fog was thick as pea (豌豆) soup. London’s fog was __________ by factory smoke, so it was called “smog”. The smog was so thick that car and bus drivers could _________ see the road in front of them even during the daytime. People had to ________ “smog-mask” over their faces when they went out.
In December 1952, a very thick dark __________ came down over the city. It was the _________ smog Londoners had ever had. Nearly fifty people died in road accidents. Many more people ________ very unhealthy. After three weeks, the smog began to _______ lowly. Life in London came back to normal. But not long after that, over 4,000 people died as a ___________ of the smog. In 1956, the British ________burning coal in houses and factories in the city. London’s air got cleaner.

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Dear Grandpa Mandela (曼德拉),
How are you recently? Are you having a happy life now? I hope ________ goes well with you.
Grandpa Mandela, I’m a ________ girl. Your experience has moved me deeply and encouraged me a lot. I realized that I should make a contributing to the world’s peace (和平) and development, especially for the developing __________. I must study hard to realize my dream.
China has _________ the WTO. Many things are open to the world, so some people are shouting loudly, “The wolf (狼) is coming!” Some people’s