2011年中考英语复习知识点盘点（16）：短文填空考点讲解和训练

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　　Each morning a rich man found a poor man sitting on a park bench(长凳). The poor man always sat there, 1___________ (看着)the big hotel in which the rich man lived. 2_________(有一天)the rich man got out of his car and said to the poor man, "Excuse me, but I just want to know why you sit here and look at my hotel 3_________ (每天早晨)." "Sir," said the poor man, "I am a failure. I have no money, no home. I sleep 4________ (在这条长凳上), and every night I dream(梦想)that one day I'll sleep in that hotel." The rich man said, "Tonight your dream will 5________ (变为现实). I'll pay for the best room in that hotel for you a whole month."

　　6_________ (几天以后), the rich man went by the poor man's room to ask him how he was enjoying himself. 7___________ (使他惊讶的是), he found that the man had 8__________ (搬出了)the hotel, back to his park bench. When the rich man asked why, the poor man said, "You see, when I'm down here sleeping on my bench, I dream I'm up there, 9____________ (在那个大宾馆里). It's a wonderful dream. But when I was up there, I dreamed I was back to this cold bench. It was a terrible dream, and I couldn't get any sleep 10________ (根本)."

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　　On October 12, 1989, some Chinese scientists were working at the computers to 1________ (寻找)the information they needed. Suddenly they saw a lot of very bright spots crossing the computers’ screens. 2__________(同时), they stopped their work to check some parts of the computers. To their horror, they 3___________ (发现)that most of their stored information was got rid of by computer viruses! Obviously all these computers had been infected by computer viruses.

　　4___________ (据说)that the computer viruses were made by a group of young men like playing tricks. They all had excellent 5_________ (教育). They created the viruses just to show their intelligence. 6___________ (这种)computer viruses is named Jerusalem Viruses. These viruses can stay in computers 7___________ (很长时间). When the time comes they will attack the computers by lowering the functions, damaging their normal programs or even getting rid of all the information..

　　We now come to know that Jerusalem Viruses often attack computers 8__________ (在星期五)and they are spreading to a lot of computers. Among the countries that suffered computer viruses are Britain, Switzerland, the US and some 9________ (其它的)countries. But till now how to get rid of the terrible viruses 10__________ (仍然是)a problem.

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　　In American high school 1 _______(大多数) students take English, science, math and history.

　　2 _______(在英语课堂上) , the students study grammar and read famous literature. In science class, they study biology, chemistry or physics. History is 3 ________(更有趣) to some students because they learn about important events and places 4 ________(在美国) . Students take 5 ______(其它) courses, too. These are electives. Some study 6 ________(音乐)because they feel it is more enjoyable. Some study 7 _________(计算机科学)because they 8 ________(认为)it is more practical.

　　9 ______(在各自课堂上) , teachers give students exams. Some exams are more difficult than others, but a good student can always do 10 ______(好).

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　　One kind of vacation that many Americans enjoy is camping. Each summer 1_____ (数百万的) Americans drive to the countryside where they find places 2_____ (野营). The national parks, many of which are 3 _____(在山里) , are favourite camping places. Campers enjoy the 4 _______(新鲜空气), the lakes and the forests which they find in these parks. Campers hike, swim and fish. They can also find 5 ______(许多种)animals and plants in the parks. Mostly campers have trailers which they drive or pull behind their cars to their campsites. Trailers are like houses 6 ______(在轮子上). They have many conveniences which people have in their homes, 7_______(例如)electricity and hot water. But 8 _______(大多数) campers don’t have trailers. They camp in tents which they 9________ (搭起)in their campsites. Campers in tents don’t have the conveniences that campers in trailers have. Tent campers enjoy 10 _________(一种简单的生活) .

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　　All big cities are quite similar. Living in a modern Asian city is not very 1 (不同於)living in an American city. The same cannot be said about living 2 (在农场上), however.

　　In many parts of the world, farmers and their families live 3 (在村庄和城镇里). In the United States, however, each farm family lives on its own fields, often beyond the sight of any neighbors. 4 (不用) traveling from a village to the fields every morning, American farmers stay 5 (在他们的土地上)throughout the week. They travel to the nearest town 6 (在星期六)for shopping or on Sundays for church. The children ride on buses to large schools which serve 7 (所有的农场家庭) living in the area. In some areas, there are small schools serving a few farm families, and the children walk to school.

　　8 (当然)life keeps changing for everyone, including farmers. Today there are cars, good roads, radios, and television sets. And of course there are modern machines for farming. All of these have changed farm life.

　　For many years, however, farming in America was often a lonely way of living. Farmers 9 (不得不)deal with their own problems, instead of getting help from others. They 10 (学会)to try new methods, and to trust their own ideas instead of following older ways.

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