英语中考短文填空专练
（一） call , swim , anything , clever , bear , can , his , give , girl , something , read , take
Many years ago , there was a family ___1___ Franklin . They lived in Boston . There were five ___2___ and six boys in the family . On a January day in 1760 , another baby boy ___3___ . They boy’s mother and his father ___4___ the boy a name — Benjamin .
Benjamin was the ___5___ of all the children . He could read when he was five and he ___6___ write by the time he was seven . When he was eight he was sent to school .
In school Benjamin had been good at ___7___ and writing but not good at maths . He read all of ___8___ father’s books . And whenever （每当）he had a little money , he bought a book with it . He liked books . They told him how to do ___9___ . At that time he invented the paddles （脚蹼）for ___10___ .
（二）
say , surprise , do , in , friend , to , visits , we , usual , or , welcome , time , for , but , ideas
Manners are important in every country , ___1___ people have different ___2___ about their manners . What is good in one country may not be ___3___ in another .
Chinese people are ___4___ to know the fact that an Englishman ___5___ stop to talk and shake hands with his friend ___6___ the street . They just say hello ___7___ each other and then pass on .
English people think that ___8___ Chinese end our ___9___ to friends all of a sudden . They ___10___ begin to show that they want to go 15 ___11 20 minutes before they leave their ___12___ house . And they do this two or three ___13___ within 20
minutes .
It is important ___14___ people to understand each other . Here is a ___15___ , “When in Rome , do as the Romans do .”
（三）
need , animal , I , put , make , except , find , end , look , since , little , enough Let me tell you a story .
A good friend of ___1___ lives with six hundred animals on an island . Ever ___2___ he left school , he has travelled all over the world ___3___ for animals for his own zoo . He writes books about his travels , and about his wonderful ___4___ . The money for his books helps him to pay for all the animal food . My friend told me that when he was looking for water last week (There is not enough water on the island , though there is a lot all around it ) , he ___5___ oil （石油） . He ___6___ money for his travels and for his zoo , and a little oil would buy ___7___ water for a long time , but he knows that if he tells anybody else about it , it will be the ___8___ of his zoo and his life’s work .
So I think he will not tell anybody ___9___ you and me about what he found — because oil and water can’t ___10___ together . Oil may bring greater trouble to his animals than not having enough water . Do you think so ?
二. 阅读下面的短文，根据每个空格中所给的词首字母填入适当的词，使短文意思完整。
（一）
Can animals be made to work for people ? Some scientists think that one day animals may be trained （训练） to do a number of simple jobs i (1) of people . They say that at a circus （杂技场）， for example , we may see elephants , monkeys , dogs and other animals doing q (2) skillful （熟练的） things . Perhaps you have
