中考英语(短文填词、选词填空)练习(含答案)(3)

Mr Hill arrives at London Airport, at the end of a three-week holiday in 1. ________. Usually he wears

a beard(蓄着胡须). Since it has been 2.________ there, he has taken it off (剃掉). But his passport photo shows him with his 3. ________.

An officer looks at the 4. ________for a moment, and says，"Will you excuse me? Please sit down. I

shan't keep you long." With this, he walks away, shows the photo to a second 5.________, and says: "I know that face." The second officer looks at the 6. ________ and asks where Mr Hill has come from. When he hears that Mr Hill has arrived back from Paris, the 7.________ officer smiles and says: "An Englishman with a beard stole a painting in Paris on Friday, And that man looks just the kind of man..."

8.________ it comes to the first officer who Mr Hill is. He returns to him, and asks: "Did you

9. ________ at the No.2. High School?" When Mr Hill answers, 10. ________, that he did, the first officer smiles and says: "I thought so. I'm Jack Smith. You taught me French. You haven't changed a bit."

1.France 2.hot 3. beard 4. photo 5. office 6. passport 7. second 8. Suddenly 9. teach 10. in surprise

he was always

2.________ questions and trying out new ideas. No matter 3.________ hard it was, he never gave up.

Young Tom was in school for only three months. His teacher didn’t understand why he had

4.________ many strange questions. Most of them were not about his lessons. The teacher didn’t want to teach Tom any 5.________ . He asked Tom’s mother to take the boy home. Tom’s mother taught him to read and write, and she found him 6.________ a very good pupil. He learnt very fast and became very

7.________ in science.

One day , he saw a little boy 8.________ on the railway tracks at a station. A train was coming near

quiclly, and the boy was too frightened to move. Edison rushed out and carried the boy to 9 .________. The boy’s father was so 10.________ that he taught Edison to send messages by telegraph.

1.inventor 2. asking 3.how 4.so 5. more 6.to be 7.interested 8.playing 9. safety 10.thankful

Dreams take up about one quarter of our 1 .________ time. People have several

2. ________each night. Dreams are like short films. They are usually in colour. Some dreams are 3. ________ old films. They come to us over and over 4. ________. That may be because the dreamer is worrying about something. Dreaming may be a way of trying to find an answer.

Some people get new ideas 5. ________ their work from dreams. They may have been 6. ________ about

their work all day. These thoughts can carry over into dreams.

Sometimes we 7. ________ with a good feeling from a dream. But often we can't remember the dream.

Dreams can disappear (消失) 8. ________ from memory (记忆).

Too much dreaming can be harmful (有害的). The 9. ________ we sleep, the longer we dream. The

mind is hard at work when we dream. That is 10. ________ we may have a long sleep and still wake up tired.

1 .sleeping 2.dreams 3.like 4. again 5. about 6. thinking 7. wake up 8. quickly 9. more 10. why