【中考专项练习】最新中考英语用所给单词的适当形式填空及答案(精选版)共20页

paths that comets take through the sky. Some comets move out of our sight and never come back. Others keep (8)________(come) back at regular times. A big comet that keeps coming back was named after Halley because he was the one who worked out when it(9)_______(come) back again. Maybe you have ever seen Halley’s Comets because the last time it came close to the sun and the earth was in the year 1986. Then people all over the world were outside at night to look at it. You (10)____probably ______( see) Halley’s Comets when it comes near the earth again. (8)

Mr Clark (1)___________ (bear) in a small town of England. When he finished middle school, he (2)____________(find) work in the police station and he (3)___________(work) there for 42 years and he’ll retire(退休)this autumn. He tried to work hard in the past 42 years but he wasn’t a lucky man and never caught a thief. He was often sorry for it.

Last weekend, when Mrs Clarke (4)____________ (cook) supper, she found there was no sugar. So she asked her husband (5)____________ (buy) some in the shop near their house. He came in the shop and found a young man (6)__________ (steal) some money from a woman’s bag. He ran to the thief quickly, but the young man found and (7)___________ (run) away at onec. Mr Clarke ran after him. The thief ran into a blind alley（死胡同）and Mr Clarke (8)__________ (catch) him at last.

“Please give me a chance, sir, said the young man. “I never stole before.”

“Who (9)__________ (give) me a chance?” said Mr Clarke. “I’ll soon retire and I (10)_________ (catch) a thief for the first time!” (9)

A sudden ringing woke Peter up. He turned on the light, got up and went to answer the phone. “ 1 you still _______ (lie) on the bed?” Came Henry’s voice. “Yes,” said Peter. “But it’s only four.”

“ 2 your watch ________ (not work)? Open the window and look outside. I 3 (arrive) at the bus stop already.”

Peter did as his friend said. It 4 (snow) heavily and it was white everywhere. Skiing was both Peter’s favorite hobby and mine, too. I ran to the telephone and said, “Wait for me there and I 5 (get) there in a quarter of an hour.”

After half an hour Peter and his friends were on the bus. It was cold and the roads 6 (cover) with snow. The old driver seemed to be careful. He drove slowly and all the passengers 7 (understand) why he did so.

Suddenly a woman in the front of the bus called out. People 8 (not know) what happened and they looked ahead. A truck quickly approached our bus. We were too 9 (frighten) to say a word. At the last moment the driver turned the bus aside and it hit a tree by the road. The truck passed by quickly and fell into the river. Luckily, none of the passengers 10 (hurt). But they were not happy. They had to save the truck driver! (10)

Once a boy came to ask a fisherman how (1)___________(become) cleverer because his mother always

called him “foolish boy”. “That is easy, ” answered the fisherman. “I know one way to make you (2)_______(be ) a clever boy.”“Really?”

“Of course. A fish head is good for brains. If you eat one a day, you (3)______(become) much cleverer. (4) _________(pay) only three pounds for one fish head.” The boy paid him three pounds and the fisherman (5)_________(cut) off a fish head and gave it to him.

A raw(生的)fish head is no good--- not even for a hungry boy (6)______(eat)----but the boy ate it up in two gulps.“Do you feel anything?” asked the fisherman after the boy ate the fish head.“Not in my head,” said the boy.The boy sat on the ground and (7)_________(think), “One whole fish (8)_________(cost) only two pounds, but I (9)_________(pay) him three pounds for the fish already. Why couldn’t I have the whole fish for soup, a head for brain and one pound left over?” He jumped up and shouted at the fisherman, “The fish head(10) _________(work) now, you see?” (11)

Peter went into a restaurant because he was very hungry. The weather was cold and so he asked the waiter (1)________(bring) him a bowl of hot soup.

“What kind of soup, sir?” asked the waiter.

“Chicken,” said Peter. “I feel like (2)_________(drink) some thick chicken soup.”“No problem, sir.” After a short time, the waiter came back with a bowl of hot soup. Peter looked at it and said, “The soup can’t (3)________(eat), I think.”

“Then, I’ll bring you some fish soup. I’m sure you(4)__________(like) it. ”Ten minutes later, the waiter brought Peter a bowl of fish soup. After (5)__________(look) at it, Peter said again that he couldn’t eat the soup. When the waiter was on his way to the kitchen, he met the head of the restaurant and (6)____(tell) him that Peter was very hard.

When he (7)_________(hear) this, the boss went up to Peter and asked him politely, “Sir, I wonder if there (8)________(be) anything wrong with the soup .”

“Nothing at all, but I (9)__________(not see) the spoon but a knife and fork on the table since I came in.” Peter answered with a smile. Can you show me how (10)________(eat) the hot soup without it?” (12)

Olympic 110-meter hurdles （障碍）world record holder Liu Xiang 1_________(say) that he 2______(retire)(退役) after the Beijing Olympic Games. In fact, he plans to run until he is 30 or even older. If he retires , nobody in China can compete （竞争）with him, he 3________(feel) very sad.He said this while 4______(give)an interview to a reporter from Shanghai Youth Daily.

“I'm not kidding（开玩笑） at all,” he said to the reporter. “I'm serious. Life is just like this: sometimes you 5______(be)too serious, while at other times, you have to be careful. ”

Because he seldom（很少） talked seriously most of the time, the reporter thought that he 6______(joke) again this time. However, he said he was not.

“I want to prove myself that I didn't make the achievement by luck.”

“My performance 7_______(prove)that I'm not worse than Western runners. Now, I want to run for another