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重庆市中考英语 短文填空专项训练 人教新目标版
短文填空解题思路
1. 跳过空格，通读短文，了解大意。解题时先跳过空格，通读完形填空的短文，了解全篇的内容
和要旨。要 重视首句，善于以首句的时态、语气为立足点，理清文脉，推测全文时态、主题及大
意。
2. 复读短文，确定语义，判断词形。把握短文大意后再认真复读短文，利用上下文的语境，结合
所学过的知 识，先确定空格处所需词语的意义，再根据空格在句子中的位置，判断其在句中充当
的成分，从而确定所 填词的词性，再依据词语搭配和语法规则，判断所填的词的正确形式。
3. 三读短文，上下参照，验 证答案。在短文的空白处分别填上一个词后，将完成的短文再细读一
遍，上下参照，连贯思考。可从上、 下文内容是否协调一致、顺理成章，语法结构是否正确无误
等进行综合验证，凡有疑问必须重新推敲考虑 。
做短文填空题的注意之处
1. 语义完整、适用是做好填词的前提，要从全文的内容出发 ，前后上下联系起来考虑，避免“只
见树木，不见森林”的错误。
2. 要善于从文中同样结 构或类似结构中寻找线索，从中得到提示和启发，帮助确定应填词的词性
和词形，这样可避免想当然地随 意乱填。
3. 填词时应注意词形，不可简单地都填原形词。若空格内填的是名词，要考虑其单复数形 式；若
填的是形容词或副词，则要考虑其是否属于比较等级；如若填的是动词，则要特别注意考虑其时< br>态和语态。如在句首，还要考虑其首字母的大写。
4. 有些空格需要填入介词、连词等，除考虑上下文的内容外，还要考虑和其他词的固定搭配及其
习惯用法。
5. 选词填空题和限词填空题一般只有一个答案，自由填空题虽然可能允许有多个正确答案，但只能选择其中一个填入，因为完形填空题每个空格只准填写一个单词，多填反而出错。
Passage 1
Can animals be made to work for people? Some scientists think that one day animals
may be trained（训练）to do a number of simple jobs 1 of people. They say that at a
circus（杂技场）,for example, we may see elephants, monkeys, dogs and other animals
doing q 2 skillful（熟练的）things. Perhaps you have seen them on the television or

in a film. If you watch closely, you may find that the trainer（驯兽员）always g 3 the
animal some sugar o 4 a piece of fruit as a reward（报酬）. The scientists say that
many d 5 animals may be trained to do a lot of simple things if they know they will
get a reward 6 doing that.
Of course, as we know, dogs can be trained to look after a house, and soldiers in both
old and modern times have u 7 geese to give warning（警报）by m 8 a lot of
noise when an enemy comes near. And also it may be possible to train animals to work in
families or factories.

Passage 2
Mr King taught English in a middle school. He was very b 1 all the time and
couldn’t do any r 2 So he left the school and opened a book shop in the c 3
of the town. It wasn’t big enough but all the books were nice and most people liked to
buy some there. When the shop was 4 he could read at home. He knew a lot
and the learned（有学问的）persons were glad to make 5 with him.
It was Sunday and it was cold outside. Mr King was very busy. At nine in the evening
all the buyers left ____6 a girl. She was dressed up and waited for s 7 there.
Standing by the shelves, she looked over the books one after a 8 . It made them in
a fearful mess（凌乱不堪）. Mr King came up to her and asked, “Excuse me, madam.
What can I do for you?” “Your books are all dull（乏味的）,” said the girl, “I want a
9 one.” “That’s easy,” Mr King smiled. He 10 out a cookbook（烹调书）and
said, “Here you are, madam.”

Passage 3
Someone says, “Time is money,” but I think time is even more 1 than money.
Why? Because when money is s 2 we can get it 3 However, when time
is g 4 , it’ll never return. That’s w 5 we mustn’t waste(浪费) time. It’s
sure that the t 6 is usually limited(有限的).Even a second is very important.
We should make full use of our time to do something u 7 . But some people
don’t know the importance of time. They spend their limited time smoking, drinking and
playing. They do not know that wasting time means wasting part of their own l
8 .In a word, we should save time, we shouldn’t leave today’s work for tomorrow.
Remember we have no time to lose.

Passage4
The world has a big headache and it’s caused by money. It began in America last year
and it’s traveled around the world helped by the speed of the Internet.
In just a few short months billions and billions of dollars have d____1____. They just
vanished(消失) into thin air. How can this be? Well, to understand the idea of “value”,
The value of something is what someone is what someone is willing to pay for it. That’s
easy when it comes to buying a bottle of green tea. You wouldn’t pay more than a few
Yuan. But what about something like a h____2____?
In America, houses are e____3____. People have to get loans(贷款) in order to buy
them. To get a loan you have to have a good j____4____ so the lender knows you’re
going to pay the money back. But America started making it easier for people to get loans.
That meant more people could buy houses. The demand for houses increased their

“value” so their prices went up and people had to get bigger loans to buy them. Of
c____5____, many of these people couldn’t afford to pay back the bigger loans.
S____6____ the banks couldn’t get their money back, the price of houses went down and
all that “value” disappeared.
Now the banks are o____7____ of money and governments around the world have
had to step in and help does this all mean? Well, with the banks in trouble
there is less money to invest(投资) and less money for people to buy things. That means
less business, 8 jobs and more unemployment. It’s a big headache for
everyone around the world and aspirin can’t cure it.

Passage 5
We can’t stop an earthquake (地震), but we can do things to make sure they don’t
destroy(毁坏) whole cities. First, it is not ___1___ idea to build houses along lines
where ____2___ of the earth’s plates(板块) join together. Second, if you think there
___3___ be an earthquake, it is better to build houses on rocks , not on ___4___. Third,
you must make the houses as ____5____ as possible. Weak buildings will fall down in an
earthquake, but strong ones may stay up.
Scientists are afraid that one day an even bigger earthquake will hit the part around
San Francisco(旧金山) . They call it “ The Big One ”. However, people today are still
building more ____6____ . The population in and around San Francisco is now ten times
more than it___7___ in 1906. This means that ___8___ there is another earthquake, a
great many houses and buildings will be destroyed.

Passage 6
(梦) may be more important than sleep. We all need to dream,some
scientists say. Dreams take up about one quarter of our ____1____ time. People have
several ____2____each night. Dreams are like short films. They are usually in colour.
Some dreams are ____3____ old films. They come to us over and over ___4_____. That
may be because the dreamer is worrying about something. Dreaming may be a way of
trying to find an answer.
Some people get new ideas ____5____ their work from dreams. They may have been
thinking about their work all day. These thoughts can carry over into dreams. Sometimes
we wake ____6____ with a good feeling from a dream. But often we can't remember the
dream. Dreams can disappear (消失) ____7____ from memory (记忆).
Too much dreaming can be harmful (有害的). The ____8____ we sleep, the longer
we dream. The mind is hard at work when we dream. That is why we may have a long
sleep and still wake up tired.

Passage7
Now lots of parents will buy everything that their children want to have. If they go on
with the habit, their children won’t know the money 1 from hard work.
Some parents like to 2 birthday parties for their children. If they keep on
doing this, their children will think 3 necessary for them to enjoy birthday parties
every year. Year after year, maybe they will forget their birthdays and only
remember their own. It is against traditional habits.
Many parents don’t let the children do housework. They think children have only one

thing to do. They should study hard and do 4 in their lessons. If parents go on
doing this, the children will only learn to 5 their mouths to be fed and stretch out(伸
出) their 6 to be dressed every day. When the children grow up, they will be able
to do 7 , and they won’t even find a job. Parents should teach the children 8
to do housework because it can help them start good habits of working by themselves.

附加Passage 1
The ____1____ means the earth, the sun, the moon and the stars and the space
b____2____ them .Many of the stars are so far away that we can not see them. The moon,
our satellite, travels ___3___ the earth. It has already been visited ___4___ man from the
earth. Man-made satellites have been sent up ___5___ space by many countries .They go
round the earth. They are used for helping us to learn more about the earth, the weather
and other things. They are also used for sending and ____6___ messages. It makes people
____7___ different countries understand each other much better. So people say the world
itself is becoming a much ___8__ place. People call the small place “the global village”.

Passage 2
Seumas Mcsporran is a very __1__ man. He is 60 years old and he has thirteen jobs. He
is a postman, a policeman, a fireman, a taxi driver, a school-bus driver, a boatman, an
ambulance man, an accountant, a petrol attendant, a barman, and an undertaker. Also, he
and his wife, Margaret, have a shop and a small hotel. Seumas ___2__ and works on the
island of Gigha in the west of Scotland. Only 120 people live on Gigha but in summer
150 tourists come by __3___ every day. Every weekday Seumas gets up at six and makes

___4__ for the hotel guests. At eight he drives the island’s children to __5___. At nine he
collects the post from the boat and delivers it to all the houses on the island. He also
delivers the beer to the island’s only pub. Then he helps Margaret in the 6 .He says：
“Margaret likes being busy, too. We never have holidays and we don’t like ___7__
television. In the evening Margaret makes supper and I do the accounts. At ten we have a
glass of wine and then we go to bed. P___8__ our life isn’t very exciting, but we like it.”

Passage 3
Stella McCartney was born on September 13, 1971 in London, England. She was the
daughter of Paul McCartney, a member of the world-famous band “the Beatles”. Though
Stella was born famous, her parents wanted her to live a n____1____ and independent
life. Little Stella went to state school and e____2____ her pocket money. She didn't get
the kind of allowance other kids of her age might have. When she wanted spending
money, she had to clean dishes at a r____3____ near her home. Though Stella had the
looks to become a model, she was most i____4____ in becoming a fashion designer. At
the age of twelve , she made her first jacket. Three years later, she started working on her
first fashion design collection. When she a____5____ college, some students called her
“Daddy’s Girl”, B____6____ when her graduation fashion show came out, she made
them shut up. Later, Stella worked for some famous brands and achieved great
s____7____. In 2001, she started her own label(. She opened her first fashion house the
same year, and began to have famous customers, such as Cameron Diaz and Liv Tyler.
She also designed Madonna’s wedding dress. Now, Stella is a famous fashion designer.
She amazed the world not 8 by her great success at such a young age, but also by

the famous that she made it on her own.

Passage 4
We’ve talked about snails and their slow move. But much of the time snails don’t
move at all. They’re in their shells---____1____. Hot sun will dry out a snail’s body. So at
the least sign of hot sun, a snail draws its body into its shell and closes the opening___2_
__ a thin cover. Then it goes to sleep.
A snail will die in a heavy rain. So whenever it rains, it goes inside its shell house and
goes to sleep. A snail can sleep for as 3 as it needs to. It can take a short sleep.
Or it can sleep for days at ___4____time. And it spends all the winter months in its shell,
asleep. In Spring the snail 5 up . Its body about three inches long, comes out
from the shell. When hungry, the snail looks for food . It can’t see very well. Its eyes, at
the ends of the top feelers(触角), are very weak. But its sense of smell is very 6 .
It helps the snail to the new greens. Then the snail’s little mouth goes to work. A snail’s
mouth is no ___7____than the point of a pin(针). Yet it has 256,000 teeth! The teeth are
so small that you can’t see them. But they do their work. If you put a snail in a hard paper
box, it will eat its way out! And if a snail wears out its teeth, it will grow new ones.
Mostly, snail looks for food at____8____. But on cloudy days it eats in the daytime. It
eats all say long. A snail can go on eating for hours and never feel full.