英语缺词填空专项练习.doc

英语缺词填空专项练习
姓名_______班级_______得分________
1.. American people like to say “Thank you”, when other people help them or say something kind to them. People of many o__________ countries do so, too. It is a very good habit.
You should say “Thank you” when someone passes you the salt on the table, when someone walking before you k_________ the door open for you, when someone s_________ you have done your work well, or you have bought a nice thing, or your city is very beautiful.“Thank you” is u_________ not only between friends, but also between parents and children, brothers and sisters, husbands and w_________.“Excuse me” is a_________ short sentence they use. When you hear someone say so b_______ you, you know that somebody wants to walk past you.
It is not p_________ to interrupt others while they are talking. If you want to speak to one of them, say “Excuse me” first, and then begin t___________. You should also do so when you want to cough or make any unpleasant n_______ before others.
2. Hello, everyone. My name is Jim. I am a student. Our classroom is big a______ nice. There are some pictures on the w_______. We have thirty desks and chairs i_______ the room. They are for the s________. There a ________ some Chinese and science books in my desk. There are colored pictures in the science books. I come to school at 7:30 a.m. I h_______three lessons in the morning and three in the afternoon. I like history, science and some o_______ subjects. I d________ my homework on the computer. I am good a______sports. And I love_p________basketball very much. I like my school life very much.
3. I’m sure you have heard of the name of “Yao Ming”. He is now a famous basketball p_______. He was b________ in Shanghai,1980. at the a________ of 4, he had to pay for tickets because of his height. Even t__________ his parents are very good at basketball, he didn’t love this game at first. And he had no confidence I h_________. He was too thin, and his friends jokingly c________ him “chopsticks”.“Don’t g________ up! Just try!” his coach （教练）encourages him all the time.In 1998 he became a m__________ of the National Men’s Team. (国家男蓝). Four years l________, he was picked by NBA. Now all the Chinese are very p______ of Yao Ming
4. Only mother love is true love. It gives e_________ everything all her 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 n__________ and forgets about herself. When you are growing up day by day, she feels very happy. When you are old e__________ to go to school, mother still looks after you all the t_______ . On cold winter days, she always tells you to p_______ 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 b_________ . She always feels worried about you at home. She u_____ knows about you study and spend much money on your school things. When you do well at school , you will see the brightest s______ 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 r____________ Mother Love for ever!
5. It’s Sunday morning, many boys and girls are in the park. Some of them are singing under the tree, some are_______ in the river, other children are________ games behind the hill.Maria is _______American girl. She is in the _______, too. Where is she? Oh, she is on the hill. What is she _________over there? She is sitting and ________ a book. She ________ reading very much. Tom is an English boy. He ______ five. He is too young. He can’t _______ to school. Now he is _______ a kite with his father in the park.
6. I got an answering machine for my birthday and I soon realized（意识到）what a u_________machine this is. I am not at home m_______ of the day, so someone can leave a message and I can ring them b_________. They have no way to say they c________ get in touch with (联系) me. S________ when I am at home and have work to do the phone never s________. Now I put the machine on. I am not troubled. So I can do a lot m________ work. There are some people I j_______ do not want to talk to. So I put the machine on and I don’t have to s________ to them. In conclusion(总之)，I really don’t know how I lived w__________ this wonderful machine.
7.Tim spent in a bookshop can be enjoyable . If you go to a good s________ , no assistant will come near to you and say , “Can I h______ you ?” You needn’t buy a________ you don’t want . You may try to find out where the book you want is . But if you w_______ , the assistant will lead you there and then he will go away . It seems that he is not interested i_____ selling any books at all . There is a story which t_______ us about a good shop . A medical student found a very useful book in a shop , but it is too expensive for him to b______ . He couldn’t get it from the library , e_______ . So every afternoon he went there to r______ 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 s____ , 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 .
8. ( S=salesgirl ; H=Han mei )
S: Good morning. Can I help you ?
H: Yes. I b______ this blouse last week, but there's something wrong w_____ it. When I w_____ it, the colours ran. I can't w_____ it now. I want you to c_____ this blouse or give me my m_____ 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 instructions..Did you leave it in water b______ you washed it ?
H: No, I didn't do that, ______. I didn't put it in cold water until I washed it.
8. When you go to England you may find the traffic there is different from ours. As a f_______ you must be c_______ in the streets, because the traffic d______ 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 b______ traffic is most d_______ then. When you go by bus in England, you have to take care, too. Always r__________the traffic m ______ on the left. You have to t______ a look first or you will go to the w_______ way. In many English cities there are big buses with two f______ You can sit on the second one. From there you can see the city very well.
9. Which animal do we need m _____ ? Dogs? Horses? No! The a ______ to the question is cows.Why cows? Cows give us milk. And milk is one of our most important k _______ of food. Suppose(假设)that all the milk cows make in one year were put i ______ bottles. And suppose these bottles were put side by side. The line of bottles would go all around the world 400 t ______ .That is a lot of milk, less than half of it is used for d ______ and cooking. Most of it is u _____ to make butter cheese, ice cream and many other things. It takes many cows to give us that m _______ 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 g _______ more than 3000 quarts in a year.Why do cows give more milk today? Now farmers have better cows. The cows get better c _______ and better food.
10. Near the North Pole (北极) there are two s_________, winter and summer. The winter nights are long. For more t__________ two months, you can’t s_________ the sun, e________ at noon. The summer days are also long. For more than two months, the sun n________ goes down and there are no n__________.The people there have warm clothes. They make most of these clothes by t________. They make them from the skins (皮) of a___________. From skins they make coats and hats and even shoes. In this cold weather, trees can’t g__________. The people there have to build their houses from skins, earth or snow. Life is h_________ for the people there.
11. How do you like to go to school like one in Oxford(牛津大学), England ? There are no r__________ classes. The students go from one group to a _________ when they want to. You may find students of fourteen, sixteen or twenty-five years old all in the s________ group. They work at their o_________ studies. Nobody tells them what they should or shouldn’t be doing.
The day I visited, school b__________ at nine. Some students were working at a tape recorder and listening to their lessons. Others were watching TV on maths. A group was reading in the school l_______. I didn’t see anybody just sit doing n________. Everybody was studying.
At lunch time I could see students w__________, too. They were talking about their lessons while they were e_________. When you think of these students you can be sure it is one of the best s _________ in the world.
12. A foolish (傻) man went to a food shop to buy a fish. As he didn’t know h________ to cook fish, he asked the shopkeeper to tell the way of c_______ it. The shopkeeper did so.
“But I can’t remember your w_________,” the foolish man said, “Will you please w_________them down for me?” The shopkeeper was kind e________ to write his words down for the man. The foolish man left happily w_________ the fish in his basket and the note in his pocket. On his way home, a cat saw the fish and f_________ the man. Suddenly the cat jumped at him, took the fish away from the basket q________and ran off at once. The foolish man stood there, not k_______ what to do. Then he laughed to the cat, “Never mind. You don ‘t know how to eat it. The note is s________ in my pocket
13. A shop owner c______his shop and went home. He was very t____ ,but j_______ as he went to bed, the telephone rang . A man asked, “What time do you o______ your shop?”
The shop owner was u______ about this phone call. He put down the receiver(听筒) without a______ and went back to bed. A few minutes later the telephone rang again and the man asked the s_______ question. The shop owner became very angry and shouted, “ You needn’t ask me when I open the shop, f____ I won’t let you i_____.”“Oh, no, I don’t want to get in,” the man said, “I want to go o____.”
14. When Mary Smith was a student, she wanted to be a teacher, b________ she liked children. When she was twenty, she began t _______ in a small school. She was a good teacher, and she laughed a lot with the children in her class. They e__________ her teaching.One day one of the g________in her class said to her, “Miss Smith, w does a man’s hair become gray before his beard (胡子) does?”Mary laughed and laughed, “I don’t know. Helen, do you know?”
“I don’t know, e__________, Miss Smith.” said Helen, “but it h________ to my father.” The o______children in the class laughed when they heard this.Then a boy said , “I know, Miss Smith! A man’s hair becomes gray f______ because it’s sixteen years o_______than his beard.” 
15. Henry was worried. This was his first time to go traveling by air. He did not know h________ 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 s_____ him the seat and told him to sit d_____ and fasten the seat belt. She told Henry not to m______ about when the plane was going up. And she also
said that Henry’s ears might feel a little s______, but he didn’t need to worry about it b_______ many people felt like that. When the plane was f_______ very high, Henry could stand up and walk round. He could e______read books, newspapers or see films. The air hostess would b_____ food and drinks. Henry could e______ the flight and arrived home soon.
16. Once upon a time, there lived a rich man. He had a servant (佣人). He and the servant l________ wine and good food very much. Each time the rich man l_______ his house, the servant would drink the wine and eat up all the nice food in the house. The rich man knew w_______ his servant did, b_______ he had never caught his servant doing that. One morning when he left home, he said to the servant, “ Here are two bottles of poison (毒药) and some nice food in the house. You must take care of them.” W______ these words, he went out.
But the servant knew that what the rich man had said was u_______. After the rich man was away from his home, he e________ a nice meal. S_________ he drank too much, he was tipsy (醉) and fell to the ground. When the rich man came back, he couldn’t find his food and his wine. He became very angry. He woke the servant up. But the servant told his story very well. He said a cat had catch up everything. He was a________ to be punished（惩罚）,so he drank the poison to kill h_________
17.A young officer (军官) was at a railway station. He was going to v_________ his mother in another town, and he wanted to t__________ her to tell her the time of his train so that she could meet him at the station in her car. He looked in all his pockets, but found that he did not have the right money for the telephone, so he went o_________ and looked a_______ for someone to help him.At last an old soldier came b________, and the young officer stopped him and said, “ Have you got change for ten pence (便士)？”
“ Wait a moment,” the old soldier answered, b_________ to put his hand in his pocket, “I’ll see w__________ I can help you.”
“ Don’t you know h________ to speak to an officer?” the young man said a________, “Now, let’s start again. Have you got change for ten pence?”
“ No, sir.” the old soldier answered q_________. 

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