children (10)______(say), to have no homework at all!
中考英语谓语动词填空(7)
阅读下面短文，用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空。(必要时可加情态动词或助动词) If you look at the sky one night and see something （1）_______(move) and shining that you (2)_____ never ______(see) before, it might be a comet (彗星).
A comet sometimes looks like a star. Like a planet, a comet has no light of its own. It shines from the sunlight it reflects (反射). Like the earth, a comet (3)_______(go) round the sun, but on a much longer path (轨道) than the earth travels. If a comet isn’t a star, what is it then?
Some scientists think that a large part of a comet is water frozen into pieces of ice and (4)______(mix) with iron and rock dust and perhaps a few big pieces of rock. When sunshine melts (融化) the ice in the comet, great clouds of gas go trailing after it. These clouds, together with the dust, form a long tail.
Many people perhaps (5)______(see) a comet. However no one knows how many comets there are. There (6)_______( be) millions of comets, but only a few come close enough for us to see.
An Englishman (7)_______(name) Edmund Halley, who lived from 1656 to 1742, found out a lot about the 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.
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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!”
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中考英语谓语动词填空(9)
阅读下面短文，用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空。(必要时可加情态动词或助动词) 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!
中考英语谓语动词填空(10)
阅读下面短文，用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空。(必要时可加情态动词或助动词) 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?”
中考英语谓语动词填空(11)
阅读下面短文，用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空。(必要时可加情态动词或助动词) 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.
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“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?”
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Olympic 110-meter hurdles （障碍）world record holder Liu Xiang said 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 two Olympics in order to show that I can run for a long time, just like Allen Johnson.”
Liu Xiang still said that he 8_______(run) after the Beijing Olympic Games.
“As long as I follow my coach's training program, I can prove that my good condition 9______(last) for a long time. I can run for another two Olympics, no problem.” He also expressed his hope that some young players 10____(come) out in
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No one knows how man 1_______(learn) to make words. Maybe he began by2________(make) sounds. As time went by, he made more and more sounds and more and more words. This is what we call languages. Even some animals also have their languages.
When some food 3________(find) , a bee goes back to its home. It wants 4________(tell) the other bees where the food is .But it can’t speak, so it does a little dance in the air. In this way it 5________(tell) the other bees where the food is. II
There are boys who think themselves men and who go to barber's（理发店）6_________ (shave v.刮脸).
Once a boy came into a barber’s, and 7_______(ask) the barber to shave him. The barber asked him to sit down, and soaped his face. Then he left the boy alone. He stood at the door 8_______(laugh) and talking with another barber. The young gentleman waited for some minutes and then shouted, “Well, what are you leaving me here all this time for?” The barber replied, “ I _________(wait) until your beard 10________(grow).
中考英语谓语动词填空(14)
阅读下面短文，用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空。(必要时可加情态动词或助动词) Scientists are trying 1________ (make) deserts into good land again. They want 2________ (bring) water to the deserts, so people can grow crops and 3________ (live) there. They 4________ (learn) a lot about the deserts. But more and more of the earth is 5________ (become) deserts all the time. Why is this true? Scientists think that people are
making deserts. People are doing bad things to the earth. Some places on the earth 6________ (not have) much rain, but they don’t become deserts. This is because some green plants are growing there. Small green plants and grass 7________ (be) very important to dry places. Plants prevent the sun from 8________ (make) the earth drier. Plants prevent the wind from blowing the earth away. When a little bit of rain 9________ (fall), the plants hold the water. Without plants, the lands 10________ (become) deserts easily.
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That cold February afternoon, I was walking back to my home-stay, feeling a bit sad. I had studied English at the language school for 3 months. Now it was all over. I
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