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2017中考专题练习----短文首字母填空
Passage 1
Most people want to work, but it has become m 1 difficult in today's world to find work for e 2 The economies(经济)of the world n 3 to grow by 4% each year just to keep the old number of jobs for people. Often this is not p 4 and so more people are w 5 work. Some people have no jobs now because new machines can d 6 the work of many people in a shorter time. Also, machines don't ask for more money and l 7 holidays. In all of the countries of the world machines are taking work from people, not only in factories but also on f 8 One machine can often do the work of forty people. About 75000 people are m 9 to the cities a day to look for jobs, but o 10 70% of them can find jobs. Passage 2
Someone says, “Time is money,” but I think time is even more i 1 than money. Why? Because when money is s 2 we can get it b 3 However, when time is g 4 it’ll never return. That’s w 5 we mustn’t waste(浪费) time. It’s sure that the t 6 is usually limited(有限的).Even a second is very important. We should make full use of our time to do something u 7 But some people don’t know the importance of time. They spend their limited time smoking, drinking and playing. They do not know that wasting time means wasting part of their own l 8
In a word, we should save time, we shouldn’t l 9 today’s work for tomorrow. Remember we have no time to l 10 . Passage3
Can animals be made to work for us? Some scientists think that one day animals may be t 1 to do a number of simple jobs. They s 2 that in a film or on TV we may see elephants, monkeys, dogs, bears, or other animals doing a lot of things. If you w 3 carefully, you may find that those animals are given something to eat in return for d 4 them. The scientists say that many d 5 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 j 6 And we can also teach animals to work in f 7 . Apes, for example have b 8 used in
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America to help make cars and scientists b 9 that these monkeys may one day get in crops and e 10 drive trains. Passage4
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 s 1 with memory. When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he d 2 give it enough chance to become stronger.
If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak, we k 3 that it is his own fault. But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his p 4 are to blame, and f 5 of us know that it is just his own fault.
Have you e 6 found some people can’t read or write but they usually have b 7 memories? This is b 8 they cannot read or write and they h 9 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, l 10 from these people : practise remembering. Passage5
When I was walking down the street one day, I s 1 a small bag on the ground. I picked it up and opened it to see w 2 I could find out the owner’s name. There was n 3 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 a 4 . 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 r 5 where I had seen her. D____6____ our talk, the young woman happened to say that she had l 7 her bag that afternoon. All at once I remembered w 8 I had seen her. She was the young girl in the photo, though she looked now much o 9 than the girl in the picture. She was very s 10 , 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
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thing. You found not only the bag, but also the owner of the bag. ” Passage6
Only mother love is true love. It gives e 1 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 n 2 and forgets about herself. When you are growing up day by day, she feels very happy. When you are old e 3 to go to school, mother still looks after you all the t 4 . On cold winter days, she always tells you to p 5 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 6 , she always feels worried about you at home. She u 7 knows about your study and spend much money on your school things. When you do well at school, you will see the brightest s 8 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 9 ! We will r 10 Mother Love for ever! Passage7
Seumas Mcsporran is a very b 1 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 l 2 and works on the island of Gigha in the west of Scotland. Only 120 people live on Gigha but in s 3 150 tourists come by b 4 every day. Every weekday Seumas gets up at six and makes b 5 for the hotel guests. At eight he drives the island’s children to s 6 . 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 s 7 . He says：“Margaret likes being busy, too. We n 8 have holidays and we don’t like w 9 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 10 our life isn’t very exciting, but we like it.”
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