第二章 中考真题透视

　　近几年，全国各省市中考题中都设置了完形填空题，题型也趋于多样化，下面节选部分试题，供同学们在复习备考时参考使用。

　　(1)

　　Mrs Brown lived in a small town near a big farm. One Friday afternoon after she finished (1)____ housework, she went to her small shop. She opened the window of the shop and (2)____ outside. She liked to see the green farm. There were many cows, horses and small animals (3)_____ the farm. Suddenly she saw a kangaroo under her window. It was interesting to see that it was (4)____ an old jacket. It stood there and looked hungry. Mrs Brown gave some bread (5)_____ water to it. The kangaroo ate them (6)_____. Then it became happy and jumped away. Suddenly something dropped on the (7)____ from its jacket pocket. It was a wallet! She picked it up, opened and found there was ＄300 and a photo in it. That was a man's photo with his name “John” on it. John? She looked more (8)____ and remembered she had a brother many years ago. His name was also John. “Is this man my lost brother?” she thought. She took the wallet with her and began to (9)____ the man. She asked many people in the town, and then she came to the farm and asked the farmer. To her great surprise, it was John, her lost brother. They were very excited and (10)____ to see each other.

　　( )1. A. his B. our C. their D. her

　　( )2. A. looked B. saw C. look D. see

　　( )3. A. for B. out C. on D. from

　　( )4. A. wears B. wearing C. wear D. has

　　( )5. A. or B. and C. but D. nor

　　( )6. A. all B. none C. any D. many

　　( )7. A. back B. water C. river D. floor

　　( )8. A. carefully B. carefully C. care D. careless

　　( )9. A. find B. call C. look for D. look after

　　( )10.A. sad B. angry C. late D. happy

　　(2003， 湖南省长沙市)

　　这是一篇记叙文，文章介绍的是Mrs Brown 通过一个偶然的机会看到了她多年不见的哥哥John 的照片，后来在农场上找到了John的经过。

　　1. D. 根据主语she可知答案。

　　2. A. 根据第一句话知道全文都是过去时态。

　　3. C. 表示“在农场”应用介词on。

　　4. B. 根据前面的was可知这句话是过去进行时态，由was(were)加上现在分词构成。

　　5. B. 这是一个表示连接含义的词语。

　　6. A. 由前句“It stood there and looked hungry.” 可知袋鼠会把东西全部吃完的。

　　7. D. 根据上文可知这一动作应该发生在窗外的地上。

　　8. B. 修饰动词looked应该使用副词，carefully 是其中唯一的副词，其它词语为形容词。

　　9. C. 联系下文Mrs Brown 去找她的brother, 可知答案。

　　10.D. 这是一个推理题，多年不见的兄妹见面后肯定是很高兴的。

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　　Mr Brown and his wife had a small bar near a railway station. The bar didn't close (1)_____ midnight because people came to drink while they were (2)____ for trains. So the business was good.

　　At two o'clock one morning, a man was (3)____ sitting at the table in the bar. He was (4)_____. Mr Brown's young wife wanted to go to (5)______. She looked (6)_____ the bar several times, but the man kept sleeping. Then at last she went to her (7)_____ and said to him, “You have tried to wake that man several times, and he isn't drinking(8)______. Why haven't you sent him away? It's too (9)_____.”

　　“Oh, no, I don't want to send him away,” he answered (10)_____ a smile. “You know, each time I woke him up, he gave me five pounds. Then he went to sleep again.”

　　( )1. A. until B. while C. as D. when

　　( )2. A. getting B. looking C. asking D. waiting

　　( )3. A. only B. still C. just D. also

　　( )4. A. drinking B. talking C. sleeping D. thinking

　　( )5. A. home B. school C. bed D. work

　　( )6. A. in B. at C. for D. around

　　( )7. A. room B. bed C. either D. husband

　　( )8. A. anything B. either C. everything D. too

　　( )9. A. cold B. dark C. late D. early

　　( )10.A. by B. in C. with D. for

　　(2003，青海省)

　　本文讲述的是发生在Brown夫妇的酒吧里的一件有趣的事情。凌晨两点钟了，仍然有一位顾客在店里睡觉，Mrs Brown 想去睡觉，她催促Mr Brown 快点将这一顾客打发走，但Mr Brown 的回答却很有趣。

　　1. A. 这里的until 是介词，后面加名词midnight；而while, as 和when 都是连词，后面需要加从句。

　　2. D. 根据上下文可知，人们是在等火车的时候来酒吧喝酒的。

　　3. B. only的意思是“仅仅，只有”，just 的意思是“刚刚”，also则表示”也”。而且根据前面的时间“At two o'clock in the morning” 可知在这么晚的时间，那个人仍然坐在酒吧的餐桌旁。因此应用still(仍然)。

　　4. C. 由下句“but the man kept sleeping”可知那个人当时正在睡觉。

　　5. C. 由于时间已经太晚了，所以这时Mr Brown's young wife 肯定是想去睡觉了。

　　6. D. look in 的意思是”朝里面看”，look at 的意思是”看”，look for 则表示”寻找”，而look around 的意思则是”向周围看，环视”。根据文章的意思，用look around 为宜。

　　7. D. 根据后面的and said to him可知她是和她的丈夫在说话。

　　8. A. either 由于否定句中表示“也”，too用于肯定句中表示“也”，它们都用在句子的末尾。everything 表示”任何事情”，多用于肯定句中。只有anything 可用语否定句中表示“一些东西，任何东西”。

　　9. C. 根据本段的第一句话可知答案。

　　10.C. 这是一个表示伴随状况的介词，with 正是这种用法。

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　　Early one morning, an old woman was carrying a big basket of cabbages on her head to the market. She hoped to (1)_______ them to the people from town.

　　The mountain road was narrow and the old woman was walking (2)______, because she did not want to have (3)_____ and lose her cabbage.

　　Suddenly she (4)______ a loud bell and a bicycle came round the corner. It passed her and went very fast (5)______ the hill. The old woman had to jump up to one side of the (6)_____ so quickly that the basket of cabbages nearly fell into the valley.

　　She looked up, and saw that a young boy was on the bicycle. He was (7)_____ on without even looking round to see (8)____ the old woman was all right.

　　The old woman began to shout, “Come back, young man! You dropped something!”

　　When he heard this, the boy stopped the bicycle so suddenly that he (9)____ fell off. Then he turned and began to (10)_____ the bicycle back up to the hill. “What is it?” he asked. “What did I drop?” “Little boy, “ the old woman answered, “you dropped your manners.”

　　( )1. A. send B. sell C. give D. take

　　( )2. A. carefully B. clearly C. politely D. hardly

　　( )3. A. a match B. a rest C. an accident D. a talk

　　( )4. A. hit B. made C. found D. heard

　　( )5. A. over B. up C. to D. down

　　( )6. A. road B. street C. town D. hill

　　( )7. A. driving B. riding C. running D. walking

　　( )8. A. how B. why C. whether D. when

　　( )9. A. usually B. hardly C. easily D. nearly

　　( )10.A. carry B. catch C. push D. give

　　(2003，河南省)

　　这是一篇记叙文，文章通过讲述在山路上发生的一件不愉快的事情，告诉我们在生活中应尊重他人，爱护他人。

　　1. B. 老人到市场肯定是将菜卖给城里人，而不是将菜送给他们的。这是一个基本的常识。

　　2. A. 根据上句“The mountain road was narrow.”可知老人在走山路时肯定会很小心的。

　　3. C. 根据上面的walking carefully 可知老人怕出事。

　　4. D. a loud bell 只能是听到。

　　5. D. 老人和骑车人肯定都是往山下走，要不老人就不是听见铃声了。

　　6. A. 当老人见自行车过去时，肯定会跳到路的另一边以保护自己。且上文已经说到“the mountain road”，因此就不能选street 了。

　　7. B. 当老人抬头看时，“the young man” 肯定是在继续向前骑车。

　　8. C. 根据所给的四个词的意思，选择whether 最合理。

　　9. D. usually 通常，hardly几乎不，easily 容易地，nearly几乎，根据句子意思，应该是停下车子后几乎从车上掉下来。

　　10.C. “the young boy” 肯定是在“the old woman” 的前面，因此当他转身走时，应该是向上走。因此这里应该是推着车向上走。

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　　When you are invited to a meal in Thailand(泰国), the words of the invitation mean “come and eat rice”. In fact, nearly all Thai dishes are (1)______ with rice, which grows there very easily (2)______ the climate is warm and there is much rain.

　　The food that is served is (3)_____ cut into pieces, so there is no need to use knives and forks, but, instead, special spoons and forks are used. The Thais (4)_____ to eat with their hands and now there are still some people who eat this way. There is a special (5)______ of doing it. First they wash their (6)______ hands in a bowl of water—they only eat with their right hands. They are careful not to let the food (7)_____ the palms(手掌心) of their hands. After the meal, the (8)______ are again carefully washed.

　　The meal usually has several different dishes. They are all hot. They are served in bowls, which everyone shares, (9)______ each person has their own bowl of (10)_____. As Thailand has a long coastline, it is not surprising that fish and shellfish play an important part in Thai cooking.

　　( )1. A. eaten B. used C. smelled D. tasted

　　( )2. A. when B. if C. because D. so

　　( )3. A. never B. perhaps C. hardly D. always

　　( )4. A. went B. had C. wanted D. used

　　( )5. A. reason B. way C. idea D. result

　　( )6. A. dirty B. right C. left D. big

　　( )7. A. touch B. catch C. feel D. drop

　　( )8. A. forks B. spoons C. hands D. bowls

　　( )9. A. because B. though C. since D. until

　　( )10.A. fish B. rice C. water D. shellfish

　　(2003，安徽省)

　　这是一篇说明文，文章主要介绍了泰国的一种传统的饮食方法，用手直接拿着吃。

　　1. A. 根据文章的意思，应该是在吃饭是有米饭，而不是其他几个词语所表达的意思。

　　2. C. “climate is warm and there is much rain” 是大米容易生长的原因。

　　3. D. 根据下句“so there is no need to use knives and forks” 可以推断出这种食品总是被切成片的。

　　4. D. 句中的and 连接了两个相互对等的句子，后边是现在，前边肯定是过去。now 则与used to 相互对应。

　　5. B. 下面介绍的都是这种饮食的方法。

　　6. B. “they only eat with their right hands” 已经告诉我们他们洗的是右手。

　　7. A. 根据所给的四个单词的词义可知答案。

　　8. C. 因为是用手吃的饭，所以饭后应该洗手。

　　9. B. 根据前句“They are served in bowls which everyone shares”和后面的“each person has their own bowl”可知这是一个表示转折含义的句子。

　　10.B. 全文所谈的就是泰国人吃米饭的方法。

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　　You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries. In fact, an English dictionary you (1)______ today wasn't made until the Qing Dynasty. Three men did most of the important (2)______ work on dictionaries. They spent nearly their lives trying to (3)_____ words for their dictionaries. For them, it was a wonderful journey. The largest dictionary in the world is Oxford English dictionary. The (4)______ for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857. Twenty-two years later, Oxford University asked James Murray to be the editor of its new dictionary.

　　Murray had never been to (5)______. At the age of fourteen, he left his village school in Scotland and taught himself while working in a bank. (6)______he became a great teacher. After Oxford gave him the job, Murray had a small house (7)_____ in his garden to do the work. Every morning, Murray got out of bed at five o'clock and (8)______ in the small house several hours before breakfast. Often he would work into the night. Murray hoped to finish the new dictionary in ten years. But after five years, he was (9)_____ adding words for the letter “A”! he worked on the dictionary (10)_____ he was very old. Forty-four years later, in 1928, other editors finished the dictionary.

　　( )1. A. use B. write C. copy D. miss

　　( )2. A. easy B. boring C. early D. dangerous

　　( )3. A. spell B. invent C. collect D. make

　　( )4. A. way B. idea C. use D. prize

　　( )5. A. school B. cinema C. village D. college

　　( )6. A. Later B. Long before C. So far D. Ever since

　　( )7. A. sold B. built C. broken D. drawn

　　( )8. A. read B. wrote C. worked D. thought

　　( )9. A. already B. still C. usually D. always

　　( )10.A. if B. because C. until D. since

　　(2003，江苏省南京市)

　　这是一篇记叙文，文章主要介绍了世界上最大的牛津英语词典的编写者Murray 编写这一巨作的情况。

　　1.A. 由第一句“You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries”， 可知现在我们是在用词典，而不是在写或抄词典。

　　2.C. 由于词典的编写需要很长时间，所以这三个人只是做了前期的准备工作。

　　3.C. 编写词典最主要的是搜集词语，这是一个常识。

　　4.B. 由本段最后一句“Twenty –two years later, Oxford University asked James Murray to be the editor of its new dictionary.” 可知22年前编写词典只是一种想法。

　　5.D. 根据下句“At the age of fourteen, he left his village school in Scotland and taught himself while working in a bank.” 可知Murray没有上过大学。

　　6.A. long before 的意思是”以前很久”，so far 的意思是”到目前为止”，ever since 则表示“自从”。只有later 表示”后来”，用在这里比较合适。

　　7.B. 这是句式“have…+ 过去分词”意思是“请某人做某事”，Murray是请人在花园里建了房再开始工作的。

　　8.C. 编写词典不只是读写和想，而是一件综合性的工作，所以用work比较恰当。

　　9.B. 这里说的是五年之后，Murray 的编写工作仍在进行。

　　10.C. 由四个词的意思和句意可知答案。