中考英语选词填空专项训练
1. well , soft, second ,better , may , strongly, afraid, sand , stay up, if, now, house We can’t stop an earthquake(地震), but we can do things to make sure they don’t 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.
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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 broken umbrellas, and then he took them to a big shop in London. They were 2 ________ there.
One day Mr. Brown went to London by train. He 3 ________ to take an umbrella with
him that day. Sitting in front of him was a man with an umbrella standing 4 _______ the seat. When the train arrived in London, Mr. Brown 5 ________ up the umbrella as he often did during his journey by train. Just as he was getting off, he was 6 ________ by the man. He said angrily, “That’s 7________ !” Mr. Brown’ s face turned red and he gave it back to the man at once.
When Mr Brown got to the big shop, the shopkeeper had got his six umbrellas ready. After a good look at 8 ________ of them, he said, “You’ve mended them very well.”
In the afternoon he got into the train again. The 9 ________ man was in the same seat. He looked at Mr Brown and his six umbrellas, “You’ve had a 10 ________ day,” he said.
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not speak, call , idea, and, what, garden, hear , quiet , do ,eat , name, say
A farmer saw an old man growing something on the other side of the river. The farmer 1 out to him, “ What are you growing , Grandpa? ” The old man 2 _for a moment, then said, “Swim over 3 I’ll tell you.”
The farmer didn’t like the 4 of swimming across the river. But he wanted to know 5 the old man was doing. He swam over. The old man said very 6 in his ear, “ I’m planting peas in my 7 .”
“ You should have shouted. I would have 8 quite clearly on that side.” Said the farmer.
“ Oh, no, I wouldn’t 9 that . The sparrows would have heard me and 10 my
peas.”
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3. telephone , for, lose, so, strong, clever, somebody, good, happy, outside, everybody, at
Mrs Andrews had a young cat, and it was the cat’s first winter. One evening it was 1.________ when it began to snow heavily. Mrs Andrews looked 2. ________it everywhere and shouted its name, but she did not find it, 3. ________ she telephone the police and said, “ I have 4. _______ a small black cat. Has 5. ________ found one? ”
“ No，madam, ” said the policeman at the other end, “ But cats are really very 6. ________ animals. They sometimes live for days in the snow, and when it melts (融化) or somebody finds them, they are quite 7. ________ .”
Mrs Andrews felt 8. ________ when she heard this. “ And ,” she said, “ Our cat is very 9. ________. She almost talks. ”
The policeman was getting tired, “Well then, ” he said “ Why don’t you put your 10.________ down? Maybe she is trying to telephone you now. ”
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4. tell, hear, listen to , guard, drum, much, fly , army, with, other, way , instruction
Here are some old ways to sending messages.
An Egyptian(埃及人) put his ear to the ground. He 1 . ________ the horses coming this