高中英语阅读填空试题

对话填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
W: Good evening, sir. I was told that you were robbed.
M: I certainly was.
W: When did that happen?
M: About two hours ago.
W: Why didn’t you r______ it then?
M: I couldn’t. I was tied to a chair and my mouth wasf______ with something.
W: Please tell me exactly what happened.
M: I was sitting in this room watching TV when someone )k         at the door.
Without thinking, I opened it.
W: That wasn’t very wise, sir.
M: I know. I was e_____ my wife, you see, and I t______ it was her.
W: You should never open a door without going to see who it is.
M: Yes, I regret that now.
W: What happened?
M: Two men pushed inside and then t______ me with a knife.
W: Did you take a good look at them?
M: I’m afraid not, They were both w      stockings over their faces.
W: What did they take?
M: My wallet with $200 in it, my watch, and some of my wife’s j______ from my bedroom.
W: They don’t seem to have done much damage to the flat.
M: No. They had just begun to search when the dogs next d______ began to bark. They ran off. It was some time b        my wife returned and set me free. I phoned the police at once.
W: My men began searching the area as soon as we received your call. I can’t promise you that we’ll recover your property, but we’ll certainly do our best.

阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1)汉语提示，2)首字母提示，3)语境提示，在每个空格内填人一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。

The snowstorm in our city last week wasn’t a large one, but it ______ many accidents. The snow started to come down in
the late afternoon. I saw it ______ the window of the office building where	___
Mary and I work as ______(秘书). It had been snowing for an hour	___
b______ I started to drive home. After twenty minutes, the accident	____
happened. My heater didn’t work, and the snow ______(结冰) on my	___
window, so I couldn’t see well. I had to c______ my window every few	____
minutes. To make matters ______, the car hit the hill, turned over	____
and stopped. I looked to see w______ I was hurt, but I wasn’t.	___
_____(幸运) I’d been wearing my seatbelt. Soon the police	____
came to r______ me, and I managed to return home later.	___

阅读下面短文，在标有序号的空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中单词的正确形式，并将答案写在答题纸上。（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
One night, Mrs. Riley was walking along a dark street. She was carrying her handbag in one     and a plastic carrier bag in the other. There was   else in the street except two youths. They were standing in a dark shop doorway. One of them was very tall with fair hair; the other was short and fat with a beard and moustache.
The youths waited   a few moments, and then ran quickly and quietly towards Mrs. Riley. The tall youth held her from   while the other youth tried to snatch her handbag.
Suddenly, Mrs. Riley   (throw) the tall youth over her shoulder. He crashed into the other youth and they    landed on the ground. Without    (speak), Mrs. Riley hit both of them on the head with her handbag, and walked calmly .
The two    (surprise) youths were still sitting on the ground when Mrs. Riley crossed the  towards a door with a lighted sign above it. Mrs. Riley paused, turned round, smiled at the youths and walked into the South West London Judo Club.

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16-25的相应位置上。
Making new friends means _______（put） yourself out on a limb and asking others not only to accept you, but to like you and want to be around you as well. ________(fortunate)， there is no magical solution ______ this part of the process, so if you want to make friends, take a deep breath and jump right in!
_____ first step to making new friends is figuring out what is holding you back. A lot of times people _____ are interested in making new friends don’t know why they don’t have them already. They can’t see that _____ own actions are working against them.
Once you can identify(确认，确定) what is keeping you from making new friends, you need to work through these concerns. This can be painful ______ you will need to put yourself outside of your comfort zones to see any real differences.
The next step is to shine in these social settings so that others will leave with a positive _______ (impress). If you find social situations hard, just rely on a few simple rules.
When you feel _______ (confidence) that you’ve made some great new friends, get out there and celebrate with them! No matter ________ you decide to do, the important thing is to celebrate your new friends and hopefully continue cultivating more.

Complete the following passage by filling in each blank with one word that best fits the context.
On November 2nd San Francisco became the first major US city to pass a law on controlling give-away toys with unhealthy restaurant meals marketed at kids.
______law will take effect on December 1， 2011. It is required that kids’ meals
 
      meet certain nutritional standards       they can be sold with free toys.
McDonald’s officials were angry with the decision，      effectively bans their popular Happy Meals.
But supporters say      aims to promote healthy habits while combating child obesity(肥胖). “This is a challenge to the restaurant industry to think about children’s health first，” said San Francisco Supervisor Eric Mar.
About 15 percent of American            are overweight or obese， which puts them       risk of developing heart disease， cancer， etc. In some states， the childhood obesity rate is over 30 percent.
McDonald’s started to sell the Happy Meals in 1979 with toys. In 2006， fast-food companies spent more than $520 million on advertising and toys to promote meals  children， according to the US government.

Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. recently      B. affects      C. pattern      D. varied   E. floats F. warm        G. regularly    H. mysterious   I. effect    J. evidence

Big climate changes in the last million years might have come from something very small: dust from outer space.
Earth changes between ice ages and warm periods in a(n) ____ that includes several cycles, including a ___ one that lasts 100,000 years. Scientists ____suggested this cycle might be due to changes in the inflow of cosmic(宇宙) dust.
The idea is that Earth ___above and below the imaginary plane that runs through the sun and Jupiter(木星), completing a cycle every 100,000 years. So maybe it encounters ___varying amounts of dust during each cycle that produce the climate trend.
Now there is some ____, from ancient cosmic dust recovered in ocean-floor drilling near the Azores islands west of Portugal. The large quantity of the dust rises and falls with a wonderful 100,000 year cycle during the period analyzed, 253,000 years to 458,000 years ago. Periods of more dust are related to____ climates.
But that is a long way from showing that the dust ____ climate. Some scientists argue that it is not clear how cosmic dust would make the climate warmer while dust from volcanoes is known to make it cooler. They say the cosmic dust is so thin that it is hard to see how it could have any climate____.
Nevertheless, the new study shows scientists have to take the cosmic dust idea seriously.

阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：
1）汉语提示，2）首字母提示，3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。

Do you like friends who can teach you a lot every day? Books are s   friends because they bring knowledge to us and keep us ____(陪伴) through our life. They are so valuable that libraries are b______ to  keep them. A____ all great men are lovers of books. Franklin said that it was books that led him to success and that he could have a______(获得) nothing without books. Books are the holders of mankind’s _______(经验) and imagination. They enable us to see through the past and predict the        . So when you open a book, you would get into a world ______ you have never been before. A good book is a good teacher that h      you to get over difficulties. No matter what you are, _______or old, poor or rich, books are your devoted friends.

1. ___________ 2. ___________ 3. ___________ 4. ___________ 5. ___________ 6. ___________ 7. ___________ 8. ___________ 9. ___________ 10.___________

选词填空：从方框内的词组中选择适当的词组并用其正确形式填空，使下列句子意思和结构完整。每一词组只能用一次。（共10小题，每题1分，满分10分）

be decorated with,  be concerned about,  get along well with, belong to,  hold one’s breath,  make use of,  account for, bring up,   change one’s mind   in charge of

 
1. Mr Smith works here, _______________________the Health department.
2. The house _______________________ colorful lights and wreath for the coming Christmas.
3. Taiwan is a province _____________________ China.
4. He was _____________________ by his grandparents in the countryside, so he well understands the hardship of the peasants.
5. Everyone _________________, listening to the sound in the dark and wondering what made it.
6. The man can’t _____________________ the fact that the lost watch was found in his house.
7. She ___________________________at last and promised to go together with us the next day.
8. The typhoon is coming. We _________________________ safety.
9. Spare time should be ______________________ to study so that we can enter key universities..
10.With the help of my teacher, I am ________________________________ my study.

阅读下列短文，根据以下提示：1）汉语提示，2）首字母提示，3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。
When natural disasters strike, the governments at different levels
always give a quick response．They send r________ teams, deliver relief   _____________
supplies, ________ meanwhile call on citizens to take immediate     ______
action．People, near and far, respond quickly and effectively．They _________   ____________
find ways to provideeasy a_________ to food and clean water or donate      ____________
money．In addition, other countries and non-profit ________（组织）
__________
express sympathy and provide support to the people a___________ in the          _____________
disasters and the families of the _____ （死者）．For example, they fly food 
____________
and supplies and sendspecialiststo assist in s________ for survivors．    ___________
We are fullyc_________ that, withall the international effort being           ___
made, we willwin the battle ___________ natural disasters．         ___________

阅读下面短文，根据以下要求：1)汉语提示；2)首字母提示；3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确、拼写正确。
Some people take it for granted that some lucky numbers can bring them good
luck. For instance, the so-called lucky numbers like 6 or 8 are  w _____（广泛地）_______
used because they have the similar pronunciation _______ the Chinese characters______
which mean “good luck”. So some young couples choose a date in _________________
there is a 6 or an 8 to h _______ their wedding; many shops choose such dates t______
_______________（庆祝）their opening. Yet many others don’t think so. They_______
think that numbers have _______ to do with luck. They regard numbers simply _______
as a mathematic symbol for counting. W ____ our own contribution, good luck _______
won’t fall on us automatically. I’m in f______________ of the latter opinion. I     _______
think our society is very modern now. Whether we can have good luck d_____      ______
on _____________（我们自己）. If we work hard, good luck will come to us.     _______

Directions; Complete the following passage by using the words in the box．Each word can only be used once．Note that there is one word more than you need．
A．survey      B．off          C．better      D．care     E．conducted
F．differed．   G．personal     H．prepared    I．contrast    J．differences,
GAN Xiaolin, 18, only gets half a day ____ school every week since the Hubei student started senior high school．Every day, he takes core （核心的） courses from 7:10 am to 10:30 pm．
Sometimes, Gan feels extremely stressed from the heavy workload．But he hopes that his three
years of hard work toward the college entrance examination will change his life for the __．
Gan is a typical Chinese student, as shown m a recently released survey．The new survey, which was ____ by the China Youth and Children Research Center and other foreign institutions, polled（调整） about 4,000 high school and vocational school students in China, Japan, the United States and South Korea．
The five biggest frustrations listed by all the young people were: an over-busy school life, an empty___ life, dissatisfaction with their appearance, a lack of time for exercise and friends, and no spare money．
Although some of the teenage problems were y-niversai, there were big _ __ between the students when it came to the time they spent on sehoolwork．
For example, Chinese students spent the most time at school and on homework．Nearly 80 percent of them spent at least eight hours a week in school, and 56．7 percent spent two or more hours on their homework．By_, only about 25 percent of US students, 20,5 percent of Japanese students, and 15 percent of Korean students had more than two hours of homework each night．
The responses from the Chinese students also __ significantly from their peers （同龄人）
in the other three countries when asked about their life goals．
Only 16．7 percent of Chinese students said that they didn't ___ much about their future, while the figure for that category was 72．4 percent for US students, 59．1 percent for the Japanese and 58．2 percent for the South Koreans．The _ found that Chinese students were more motivated than the other students to work hard for a better life．

短文填词（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
Once upon a time there was a farmer who worked hard in the fields
every day. One day, w____ he was ploughing the fields, he heard a           
striking sound. He saw a _____ lying by the trunk. He                     
picked it_____ and found that it was a fat rabbit. He thought                 
to h_____," Since it is so easy to get a rabbit like that, why should I           
work so hard all day long?’! He t____ his hoe away and lay by the          
tree every day, _____ (梦想着) for more rabbits to come.                   
When he f____ realized his foolishness and returned to his                  
fields, he found that all his crops were ____ (死了). The story tells            
us that we should not wait for unexpected gains ____ chance.                 
Or, we should not hope to get ______(报酬) without hard work.            _

句子填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
根据句子意思，从所给的15个词汇中选出合适的词或短语并用适当的形式填空。

challenge	be strict with	predict	a number of	attract
possess	optimistic	depend on	crime	uncertain
treat	consist of	delight	typical	pollute

Don’t ___________ me as a child. I’m already in my twenties.
--- Could you do me a favor?
--- It ____________ what it is.
I am ___________ about what to do next. Can you tell me about it?
--- Why does the lake smell terrible?
--- Because large quantities of water _________________.
We all hope that our teachers ________________ us so that we can learn more.
To our ___________, our class won the game very easily.
It is _____________ that we will have a much colder winter this year.
Pollution of the environment is one of the most ____________ we face today.
The main function of advertisements is ______________ customers to buy the goods.
It is simply a ___________ for us students to waste so much food and water.

阅读下面短文，根据上下文填入适当的词语，或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡上标号为36-45的相应位置。
Thirteen-year-old Andrew will never forget that Saturday. He was relaxing on his family’s sofa with his sister, Susan. Suddenly the heater exploded. His sister, who was unhurt, managed to pull   26  away from the fire   27  his mum dialed for an ambulance.  28  ambulance soon arrived and rushed him to Children’s Hospital   29  he was operated on immediately.
Doctors told his mum there was little chance of Andrew being able to walk again. The damage to his body was so bad and the cuts in his legs so deep that the   30 (operate) took 11 hours. After a couple of weeks, he   31  (allow) to go home but had to spend the next six weeks in a wheelchair.  32  the help of his doctor, this brave young boy returned to school after only two and a half months.   33  (look) back on the accident, Andrew says he believes children can do   34  they want   35  they put their mind to it.

Scientists have developed a non-stick chewing gum(口香糖). The new gum can    (remove) easily from pavements, shoes and clothes. It’s the result of polymer (聚合体) research at the University of Bristol and could be launched commercially in 2008.     it catches on(流行), the product will solve    major headache for present authorities around the world.
“A great   (disadvantage) of our Clean Gum is that it is easy to remove and has the potential to be  (environment) degradable (可降解的),” said Terence Cosgrove, a professor of chemistry    helped to found a company called Revolymer to commercialize the technology.
Today’s chewing gums are made  synthetic latex(人工制造的乳液), which is resistant to the weather and is strongly sticky. The new gum adds a special polymer to change its properties(特性),      (make) it far less sticky.
In two street trials,     commercial gums remained stuck to the pavement       Clean Gum came away naturally in all cases.