专题19短文填空
考点2 选词填空
（一）（2022·新疆·中考真题）
根据短文内容，在每个空格处填写一个适当的词，使文章意思完整且符合逻辑。每空一词，每词限用一次。
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Zhang Junli, an amazing woman, is from Taiyuan,Shanxi Province. She has overcome life’s greatest difficulties to become one ofthe most famous ___57___ in China. She has been paralyzed (瘫痪的)for over 30 years. When she was six, Zhang had a ___58___ illness. Ateight, she could not move 90% of her body. She can only ___59___ hershoulders and neck a little now. However, being paralyzed never prevented herfrom ___60___ to follow her dreams. Zhang took up drawing at a young ageand ____61____ learning painting in 2015. Though it is hard for her topick a paintbrush, her love for painting is ____62____ pushing her tochallenge herself.
“Painting has changed me. The first time I picked upa brush, I felt that I liked to draw,” says Zhang. “The world is so beautiful.Even if I am in poor ___63___, I don’t want to give up the chance tolive”. Now Zhang has created thousands ___64___ pencil sketches (素描).She also has an online shop ___65___ Zhang Junli’s Paintings, where shesells her works.
Zhang wants to use her ___66___ to encouragethose who are like her, and to tell them never to give up. “Instead of cryingand worrying all day, find your meaning in life. Live in the present,” saysZhang, a true inspiration.
（二）（2022·甘肃武威·中考真题）
用方框中所给单词或短语的适当形式填空，使短文通顺、正确、连贯，每个单词或短语限用一次。
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“What a great film!” says Dan.Dan Parks and SueBarrington are leaving the Odeon cinema in Oxford.
“I love Eddie Redmayne,” says Sue.
“Yes, he’s a ___41___ actor,” replies Dan.
He looks at his watch.
“It’s ___42___ o’clock already,” he says.“Time to get home.”
“Yes,” says Sue. “It’s beginning to get dark.”
They walk up the street and look for their bikes.There ___43___ a lot of bikes in Oxford. The city is flat and a lot ofpeople cycle.
“There’s my bike,” says Dan. He looks for Sue’s, buthe ___44___ see it.
“Where’s ___45___?” asks Sue. “It’s nothere.”
Then they see her bike lock on the ground — ___46___two bits.
“Oh no!” says Sue. “Bike thieves!”
Dan looks up and down the road. He sees a police carfifty metres away on the other side of the street.
“___47___ me,” he says to Sue, and runsacross the street.
She watches him. He talks through the window of thepolice car and points ___48___ at her.
Then a policewoman gets out of the car and comesacross the road with Dan.
“Hello,” says the policewoman to Sue. “I’m PCJennings. Your friend tells me your bike is ___49___ . Now tell me aboutthe bike.”
“Well, it’s blue,” begins Sue. “It’s a ____50____bike. And it’s only a year old.”
Jennings writes everything in her notebook.
…
（三）（2022·湖北随州·中考真题）
从方框中选择适当的单词，并用其适当的形式完成短文，每词只能用一次，每空一词。
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How I Learned to Learn EnglishLast year, I did notlike my English class. Every class was like a bad dream. The teacher spoke so ____36____that I did not understand her most of the time. I was afraid to ask questionsbecause of my poor pronunciation. I just ____37____ behind my textbookand never said anything.
Then one day I watched an English movie called ToyStony. I fell ____38____ love with this exciting and funny movie! SoI began to watch other English movies, too. ____39____ I could notunderstand everything the characters said, their body language and theexpressions on their ____40____ helped me to get the meaning. I also ____41____I could get the meaning by listening for just the key words. My pronunciationimproved as well by listening to the conversations in English movies. Idiscovered that listening to something ____42____ is the secret tolanguage learning. I also learned ____43____ sentences like “It’s apiece of cake” or “It server you right”. I did not understand these sentencesat first. But because I wanted to understand the story, I looked ____44____up in a dictionary.
Now I really enjoy my English class. I want to learnnew words and more grammar so that I can have a ____45____ understandingof English movies.
（四）（2022·江苏苏州·中考真题）
请认真阅读下面短文，从方框中选择适当的单词或短语，在横线上填入其正确形式。每个单词或短语仅用一次。
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Mom often says, “Cooking is an important skill, andit can be fun!” But I had no interest in cooking at all ___44___ I metwith a cooking app（应用软件）. There are differentkinds of recipes（菜谱）in the app. They offerdetailed instructions ___45___ users can follow them step by step. Mostof them even include photos or videos, which are quite useful for beginners.Last week, I picked up a popular recipe to cook fish. When I ___46___,it was exactly what I wanted and tasted delicious. Then I tried more recipes.Now I can cook a couple of ___47___. I find cooking is great fun and itseems that I ___48___ cooking. My plan is to invite my friends over nextweekend and show them my new skills. I hope they will like my cooking.
（五）（2022·江西·中考真题）
请先阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后用方框中所给词的适当形式填空，并将答案填写到答题卡的相应位置。每个词限用一次。
desert; space; heavy; be; when; woman; Chinese; love; hot; see; then
Wang Yaping is an astronaut. In 2013, she became thesecond Chinese woman to travel to ___47___. She is also famous for aphysics class televised for more than 60 million people.Wang trained very hardfor many years ___48___ an astronaut. The hardest part was ___49___training. Wearing a spacesuit and carrying special and ___50___equipment(装备), she walked several kilometersthrough the ___51___ and sandy desert. “Sometimes it was so windy anddusty(布满灰尘的),” she says, “that we couldn’t ___52___each other even though we were just a few meters away.”
Wang ___53___ her job. She remembers watchingthe first ___54___ astronaut go into space. “I was so proud and alsovery excited. But ___55___ I watched it, a thought came into my mind: Wehave men pilots and women pilots; and ___56___ a man astronaut. Whenwill there be a ___57___ astronaut? And today, it’s me becoming one ofthe first few.”
（六）（2022·山东泰安·中考真题）
根据短文内容，用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使文章通顺完整。（每词限用一次）
first, require, among, care, be, different, both, habit, how, finally
Cooking is supposed to be themost basic living skill for humans. However, there are many kids who are usedto being fed and taken ____37____ of everywhere like “little emperorsand little princesses”. They can’t tell the ____38____between foodmaterials like leeks（韭菜）and shallots（小葱）.
In order to stress（强调）theimportance of hard-working spirit education ____39____ students, theCommunist Party of China Central Committee recently released（发布）theguidelines. The guidelines call for students to respect labor（劳动）work.Students should learn basic life skills and develop good working ____40____through such education.
Students will be ____41____ to understand andmaster the basics of home cooking from preparing vegetables to ____42____being able to complete the whole process of home cooking independently. Thesewill be lifelong skills for kids, helping them develop into well-roundedindividuals（个体）not just students who ____43____able to take exams.
As children’s ____44____ teachers, parentsshould also encourage children to learn ____45____ to do chores at home.Students should master one or two life skills every year. These skills caninclude cooking, washing their own clothes and tidying their rooms.
It’s really important for students to take laboreducation ____46____ at school and at home.
（七）（2022·山西·中考真题）
请阅读下面短文，根据语篇内容，用方框中所给词的正确形式填空，使短文通顺、连贯。方框中有两个词为多余项。
do; she; clean; leaf; interest; meaning; you; tell; have; thing; happy; celebrate
It was Friday afternoon. Aftergetting off the school bus, Laura ran into the house ___45___.
“How was school, Laura?” asked ___46___ mom.
“It was great, Mom. Labor Day(劳动节)is coming. I am excited that I ___47___ no school next Monday!”
Laura was woken up early on Labor Day morning by herdad. He said that in honor of(纪念) Labor Day, thefamily planned ___48___ some cleaning. Laura couldn’t believe it. Shebegan to wonder if this was just a bad dream.
“Laura, your breakfast is ready. We have many ___49___to do today. Let’s get a move on,” said Laura’s mom. Laura asked her parents,“Are you serious about working today? Isn’t Labor Day a holiday?”
“Yes, Laura, it is,” replied her dad. “But your momand I thought working hard today would make you realize why Labor Day ___50___in the beginning.”
Laura disliked the plan, but she had no choice.First, she was asked to wash the breakfast dishes. After that, her dad ___51___her to give their dog a bath. It was a hard task, which needed a lot of carefulwork. She began the work unhappily.
But things began to change as she was doing thechores. She found it was so ___52___ with so many soap bubbles(泡泡)when she brushed the dog. Then it was yard work and she helped to pick upsticks. When she finished her chores, Laura felt happy to see the yard lookedmuch ___53___ than before.
Holidays are not necessarily for fun or rest. Doingsomething ___54___ can also get special pleasure. Maybe this is thespirit of Labor Day.
（八）（2022·陕西·中考真题）
用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文完整正确。(每个单词限用一次，每空限填一个单词。)
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In October 2021, a local newspaper told a story of acommon man, Jia Shuangdeng. He ____41____ from Shaanxi Province. He notonly works hard but has helped many deaf people ____42____ a better lifeas well.At the age of 14, something ____43____ happened to Jia andturned him into a deaf person. Sad and heartbroken, he had to leave school andlearned by ____44____ at home for more than two years. Later, with other____45____ help, he cheered up and made a living by making shoes. He ____46____many diffculties but he faced them bravely and kept on working hard. ____47____his shoes became popular and sold well. After a few years, he started his ownfactory and it was ____48____ However, he didn’t forget those who hadhelped him. So he decided to help the people in need. These years, he hasoffered many deaf people chances to work.
What he did has benefited (有益于)lots of deaf people. “The person I want to thank ____49____ in my lifeis Mr. Jia. Thanks to him, I’ve got a good job and have a happy life now. Healways tells us although we are disabled, we can also ______50______ ourdreams by working hard,” said Xie Ting, who was helped by Jia.
（九）（2022·四川成都·中考真题）
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When the other models appeared onthe stage, the audience cheered and clapped. Then it was Niu’s turn. Theaudience suddenly became __51__. However, after four or five seconds,Niu __52__ heard someone next to the stage say in admiration, “So cool!”
Niu Yu, 24, became a(n) __53__ star atShanghai Fashion Week for her confidence, even though she was wearing aprosthetic leg. When Niu was only 11, she __54__ lost her right legduring the Wenchuan Earthquake.
Niu has won lots of praise. This gives those who haveprejudice(偏见) against the disabled a hit onthe nose.
“I__55__ by something they said. They said the traditional view was thatsports were for people with __56__ legs, but sports should be a kind ofspirit. Even though I have lost a leg, I still deeply love sports and will doso forever,” Niu said. Actually, Niu first drew the public's attention when she__57__ a marathon—a 42-kilometer race in 2018, which was held inWenchuan to mark the __58__ anniversary(周年纪念)of the earthquake.
Now, Niu works as a photographer and has more than850, 000 __59__ on social platforms, such as Douyin. “I feel I have asocial responsibility to bridge the disabled and the public. Showing my life tothe public can allow them to ___60___ understand our group and can alsotell other disabled people that our society is more tolerant(宽容)than they imagined,” she explained.
（十）（2022·四川达州·中考真题）
用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文完整、通顺。每词限用一次。
be; post; science; other; surprise; see; while; one; anything; we
What color is a tennis ball? Askyour classmates, and they might give you some ___51___ answers.
The Atlantic asked 30, 000 people this question.Among the people surveyed, 52 percent said tennis balls are green, 42 percentsaid yellow, and 6 percent said ___52___ else.
According to the International Tennis Federation,tennis balls ___53___ yellow. So, why do most people say that they’regreen?
When we ___54___ see an object in naturallight, our brains recognize its true color. Even if the object ___55___in different kinds of light later, our brains can still tell its true color. ___56___call this color constancy (色彩恒常性). For example, weknow that China’s flag is red. When we see it during sunset or under purplelight, we still know that it is red, even if it looks like a different color.
However, the color of a tennis ball is not as pure (纯的)as the flag. It appears to be a mixture of yellow, a “warm” color, and green, a“cool” color.
The US-based magazine says that when ___57___brains try to figure out what color the ball is, some people ignore (忽略)cool colors like green, blue and purple. So they see the ball as yellow. ___58___ignore warm colors, such as red, yellow and orange. They see the ball as green.
It is not just tennis balls that make suchconfusion. In 2015, a girl ___59___ a picture of a dress online. Somepeople said the dress was black and blue ___60___ other people said itwas gold and white. They had different opinions based on whether they ignoredcool or warm colors.
（十一）（2022·浙江宁波·中考真题）
用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，每词仅用一次 (每空一词)。
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Laughter is good for you, and that’s no joke! A goodlaugh helps you right away. When you laugh, changes ___46___in yourbody. For example, you take in ___47___ air than usual, which is goodfor your heart. A good laugh increases your heart rate. When you laugh, yourbrain also releases (释放) chemicals that makeyou feel happy. Laughing can also make you feel relaxed for up to 45minutes.Laughter can ___48___ reduce pain. You probably don’t want tochuckle (偷笑) when you’re hurt, but laughterhelps the body make its own ___49___ medicine. Laughing is also greatexercise! Research ___50___ that laughing 100 times is as good as ridinga bike for 15 minutes.
So why don’t you try laughing out loud every day?
（十二）（2022·四川遂宁·中考真题）
根据语境，从方框中选择恰当的单词填空，并将正确答案填在短文后的横线上。
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The World Health Organization(WHO) was ____51____in 1948. In the past 74 years, the WHO has greatly improved health conditionsof the world, ____52____ in developing countries. It cures, prevents andcontrols serious diseases (疾病), and educates peopleabout ____53____ to protect their health. It has helped ____54____people by training doctors and nurses, and by teaching mothers how to takebetter care of their children. China is one of the first members. It offershelp to the countries in need. So China has played an important ____55____in dealing with the health problems.
（十三）（2022·四川泸州·中考真题）
通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后面的括号内选出可以填入短文空格处的词，并将该词的字母代号（不写出该词）填写在答题卡相应的位置上。
Night came, noises calmed down and the Mexicansports center of the Olympics stood quiet in darkness.
Greenspan, the world famous reporter, found thecenter ___56___ after making the scenes where the marathon（马拉松）winnersreceived the medals and marked the victory. It was time for him to return tothe hotel for a rest. He was about to leave when he suddenly saw a bandaged manran into the center with his right ___57___ bleeding. This man ranlamely（一瘸一拐的）out of breath, but he didn’t ___58___.After he ran along the runway for a circle and got to the ___59___, hefell down on the ground.
Greenspan guessed this was a marathon runner.Feeling interested, he went over to ask why the runner wanted to run to thegoal with ___60___ a difficulty. The young man ___61___ Kowarifrom Tanzania replied, “That my country sent me here from more than 20,000kilometers is not to let me get off the mark in the competition, but to make mecomplete the game. I want to run to the goal, ___62___ I have fallenbehind all other runners. I have a great goal ___63___ them. I will runto the goal. Though the audience（观众）won’t cheer me anymore, my motherland is watching me ___64___ from behind…”
Tears welled up in Greenspan’s eyes. Soon, he ___65___the most touching scene in the history of the Olympic Games to every corner ofthe world.
（A．called B．closely C．leg D．empty E.goal F. like G. stop H.spread I. such J. though）
