专项02 短文选词

专项02 短文选词

Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once

 (将下列单词或词组填入空格，用A、B、C、D等表示。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次) 

A．safety     B．leave     C．wish     D．rise     E. nothing     F. popular

The paper crane (鹤) is one of the most famous Japanese art works. Japanese believe that cranes bring good luck because their lives are long. An old Japanese story says that if someone can make one thousand cranes in a year all by himself, he will be able to make a __1__. This makes “senbazuru”, a group of one thousand paper cranes, a __2__ gift for special friends and family. A father usually gives one senbazuru to his daughter when she is going to get married. Parents will also make one for their new baby for their happiness and __3__. Senbazuru began to stand for peace in 1900s because of a girl, Sadako Sasaki. Sadako was always sick after she was two years old because of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (广岛市). She couldn’t go outside and had __4__ to do at home. To wish for a longer life, she started to make senbazuru. However, she folded only 644 cranes before dying in October 1955. Her classmates were sad and finished the rest for her. Today there is a statue of Sadako in Hiroshima Peace Park. It is a girl standing with a paper crane flying out from her hands. Now, many people come to visit modern Hiroshima and __5__ paper cranes at the statue to remember Sadakao and hope for peace too.

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Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once

 (将下列单词或词组填入空格，用A、B、C、D等表示。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次) 

A．received       B．lucky       C．working       D．scientist       E. future       F. notice

Raymond Kurzweil is 63 years old. This man believes that if he succeeds (成功) in living to 2050, he would never die. This person is a ____6____ and he is also good at computer, living in New York City. He is also a writer of many books in which he gave his forecasts (预言) about the ____7____ of human beings and the world.This person also invented (发明) many different things like the electronic keyboard and some tools. Blind people can read any kind of books by using his tools. He is also ____8____ on a kind of food. With this food, we can live for a long time, without eating any other thing. Raymond ____9____ many prizes for these kinds of inventions and for writing books. He has graduated (毕业) from 13 universities. He says that living in the 21st century is so ____10____ and because of the development (发展) in the medical field, human beings will live longer and most of the people in the well-developed countries can live to be more than 80 years old. According to him, a large number of human beings after 2050 would be more than 100 years old. And parts of their bodies will be still healthy.

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Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each can only be used once.

 (将下列单词填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次)

A．angry       B．read       C．presents       D．spent       E. younger       F. watch

It was December. Sue and her friends were talking about Christmas. Sue thought about the _____11_____ for her family. Dad loved history books and a history book would be okay. Her _____12_____ brother loved sweets. So she decided to buy him some sweets. Of course, that would make Mum _____13_____ , but people always eat sweets at Christmas. Sue’s problem was what to buy for her mum. Mum didn’t _____14_____ many books. She loves gardening, and she has already had everything for the garden. Sue could buy Mum a book with pictures of beautiful gardens in it. But she likes to be in her own garden. Sue _____15_____ a lot of time looking for something for her mum but nothing was good enough.

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Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each word or phrase can only be used once（将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一个单词或词组，每词只能填一次）: 

A．reasons             B．safety             C．organize   D．route               E. almost               F. make friends with

The walking school bus is a popular way of getting to school in some western countries. Do you know what a walking school bus is?Is a walking school bus a real bus? No! The drivers are usually their parents. They___16___ a group of children to walk to and from school! The children are the ‘bus’, their feet are the ‘wheels’, their eyes are the ‘windows’ and their legs are the ‘engine’. Each bus walks over a set（规定的）___17___ and travels at a set time. It sounds like fun, doesn’t it?   

The walking school bus is popular with children for many___18___. It is a safe way to go to school. And it is a part of their daily exercise. Many children agree that it is a good way for them to keep healthy. Besides, children can learn a lot during their walking. They can learn road___19___ and know more about their neighbourhoods. At the same time, they can learn to be independent. They can meet children of other ages and___20___ them.

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将下列单词或词组前的英文字母填入空格。每空限填一词，每词只能填一次。

A．problem          B．felt          C．lazy          D．far away            E. hard-working          F. invited

Many years ago, there lived a king. He was kind. But he was also very ____21____. He would not do anything other than eat and sleep. He became fatter and fatter, and finally found it difficult to move his body—even his feet. The king ____22____ doctors from different parts of his country to make him healthy. Unfortunately, no one could help the king lose weight. One day, an old man visited the country. He heard about the king’s ____23____. He volunteered to help the king lose some weight. The king decided to let him try. The old man asked the king to come for treatment(治疗) the next day. He lived ____24____. But the king would have to walk there, the old man added. 

The king came the next day. Unluckily, the old man was not there. His son asked the king to come and meet his father the next day. 

The king came every day for two weeks, but he never saw the old man. However, the king found that he ____25____ lighter. He had lost some weight. He finally realized why the old man had asked him to walk so far.

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Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each can only be used once

（将下列单词填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次）

A．noisily        B．luckily        C．across            D．faster            E. more slowly        F. Sadly        G. habit

The British are known as people who love to stand in line, but a new research shows that the British are only about average at waiting politely in a queue. The French are the best. It’s the Germans who don’t have a good ____26____ of standing in line. They can’t stand to wait for anything. They begin to shout loudly and ____27____ if the line doesn’t seem to be moving fast enough. ____28____ it never moves fast enough for them. The experts studied 940 people ____29____ Europe. They watched secretly as they waited in line—to get tickets, to order fast food and to wait for the bus. They found people who were good at forming queues feel that they move along ____30____. For example, in France, the average waiting at a queue needs about three and a half minutes. In Germany or British the time needs more.

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Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once

 (将下列单词或词组填入空格，用A、B、C、D等表示。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次) 

A．usual          B．find out        C．useful         D．go away         E. give away

If you go to a good bookshop, no assistant will come near to you and say, “Can I help you?” You needn’t buy anything you don’t want. You may try to _____31_____ where the book you want is. But if you want, the assistant will lead you there and then he will _____32_____. There is a story which tells us about a good bookshop. A medical student found a very _____33_____ book in a bookshop, but it was too expensive for him to buy. So every afternoon he went there to read a little at a time. One day, however, he couldn’t find the book from its _____34_____ place and was leaving when he saw an assistant signing to him. To his surprise, the assistant pointed to the book in a corner. “I put it there so as not to be sold out.”

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Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once

 (将下列单词或词组填入空格，用A、B、C、D等表示。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次) 

A．give up          B．later          C．history          D．far away            E. near        F. notice

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