期末易错专项：短文填空-英语九年级上册牛津上海版（含答案）

英语九年级上册牛津上海版（试用本）期末易错专项：短文填空
1．Fill in the blanks with proper words.
Children
grow quickly, especially their feet. But many families cannot a　 　new shoes when a child needs them. As a
result, about 300 million children around the world go barefoot, Those children
risk picking up diseases and parasites(寄生虫)
from the soil.
An
American finally has a s　 　for
those barefoot children a shoe that grows with the child. Kenton Lee is the
creator of The Shoe That Grows. He explains how the shoe works and how it is
able to last so long. "It grows in three places; the front, the side, and
the back. It can last up to five years. The b　 　is compressed(压缩的) rubber like tire rubber. The top is just
high-quality leather. "
The shoe
comes in two sizes; small that fits children ages 4 to 9 and large for children
aged g to 14. Lee says he got the idea for the shoe while working as a v　 　in an orphanage in Kenya. "… and there was a little girl in a
white dress walking next to me. And I just remember looking down and seeing how
small her shoes were. And she had to c　 　open the front of her shoes to let her
toes(脚趾) stick out. At that time I just remember thinking, wouldn't
it be nice if there were a pair of shoes that could grow with her feet.
"However, Lee says it was i　 　to
turn his idea into a reality at that time. "Yet I kept writing down I
should do this because of this or because of that. All these reasons why it
really was important for me to try to make the shoes grow are to try to help
them. "
Finally, in
2009 Lee founded a non-profit organization called Because International.
Together, they have sent over 50, 000 pairs of shoes to 70 countries. Lee says
a pair of shoes gives a child much protection b　 　self-worth and more chances to succeed.
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Augie
Dobson, a 9-year-old American boy is proud of his ability to speak Chinese. He
has been studying the language for three years from Shanghai Community
International School.
Augie is
one of a group of three and took part in a drama performance competition It was
organized to e　 　overseas
students to understand Chinese culture. Their play is based on Tang
Dynasty(618-907) poet He Zhizhang's "Hui Xiang Ou Shu. "L　 　, the play got the second prize at
yesterday's ceremony.
"Hui
Xiang Ou Shu" means writing something after returning home. It describes
an old man who left his hometown at a young age but feels like a s　 　when he returns a couple of years later.
Mrs Sun, a
Chinese teacher in school said she tries to teach her pupils to sing and dance
to the poem. "Children are interested in singing poems rather than just
reciting t　 　."
Students
at Shanghai Community International School now learn an ancient poem every day.
"It's difficult b　 　I'm trying to remember." said Augie
The first
prize went to drama Kong Cheng Ji, performed by students at Dulwich College
Shanghai, Kong Cheng Ji, tells of Zhuge Liang during the Three Kingdoms
period(220-280) . He had no army to protect and guard the city but m　 　to make the enemy's leader Sima Yi
believe that the city was full of traps and ambushes(遵伏). As a result, Sima gave up.
Li Zihao, 9,
plays Sima in the drama, Li is a fan of chengyu, Chinese four-charac-ter
idioms(四字成语)
"I've
downloaded an app about telling stories with chengyu, and he loves it. I think
chengyu is a very s　 　and
important part of Chinese culture. Four words alone can mean a lot, and chengyu
shows the great wisdom of old Chinese people." said his mother.
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Fifteen
years ago, an incident that happened at Walt Disney touched me greatly. A guest
checking out of our Polynesian Village resort(度假胜地) at Walt Disney was asked how she e　 　her visit. She told the front-desk clerk
she had had a wonderful vacation, but was heartbroken about losing several
rolls of Kodak colour film she had not yet developed(冲洗) , At that moment she was particularly s　 　over the loss of the pictures she had
taken at the show, as this was a memory she especially treasured
In fact, there
are no written rules covering lost photos in the park. L　 　, the clerk at the front desk understood
Disney's idea of loving our guests. She asked the woman to leave her a couple
rolls of unused film, and then she p　 　to take some photos for them. Two weeks
later the guest received a packet at her home. In it were photos of all the
actors of the show, personally signed by each performer. There were also
pictures of the public procession(游行队伍)
and fireworks in the park. These photos were taken by the clerk in her own time
after work. I happened to know this s　 　because this guest wrote us a letter to
express her thanks.
Excellent
s　 　does
not come from policy(政策性的) handbooks. It
comes from people who e　 　and
from a culture that encourages and models that attitude
4．Read the passage and fill in the blanks with suitable words.
Each Indian tribe(部落) had a different language. Many Indians never learned any language e　 　their own. Do you know how Indians from different tribes talked to each other They had two ways to talk without sound. One way was by sign language the other was by signals.
Sign language is a way talking by signs. Indians used it when they met strangers. In this way, they could find out w　 　the stranger was a friend or an enemy.
Indians usually used signals when they wanted to send messages to someone far a-way. To make signals, an Indian might use a pony(小马) . He might use a blanket. Or he might use smoke, a mirror or fire arrows.
To signal that he had seen many animals, an Indian r　 　his pony in a large circle. Sometimes the Indian gave a signal like this and then went away to hide. This meant that there was danger.
The blanket signal was visible from far away. An Indian held two c　 　of a blanket in his hands. Then he began to swing(摇动) the blanket from side to side in front of him. An Indian could send many different signals with his blanket.
He could also send many signals with a mirror to w　 　someone of danger or to get the attention of a person far away. But he also used it to send message in code. Of course, mirrors could be used o　 　when the sun was shining. At night, Indians use fire arrows for signaling.
An Indian also sent signals with smoke. He made a small fire of dry wood. Then he put grass or green branches on it. He held a blanket over the fire for a minute. When he r　 　the blanket from the fire, there was a cloud of smoke. The number of clouds of smoke told his message in code.
Now you can see that Indians didn't need to learn each other's language. They could talk to one another by using signals or sign language.
5．Read the passage and fill in the blanks with suitable words.
Many American
presidents in the 19th century were born in poor families. They spent their
childhood in little wooden rooms. They got little e　 　. Washington and Lincoln, for example, never
went to school and they taught themselves. Lincoln even did j　 　of a worker, shopkeeper and post officer
in his early years.
A large
number of US presidents experienced in the army. The two best known were
Ulysses Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Grant was a general in the America
Civil War and Eisenhower was a hero in the Second World War. It happened that
they g　 　 from the same school-West Point Military
Academy. One may be surprised to learn that both of them did not do well in the
school. Eisenhower, for example, was o　 　 fined because he broke the
rules of the school.
The jobs
of US presidents are t　 　.
He must keep an eye on anything important which happens both at home and a　 　. Every day, a lot of work is there for him
to do, and he has to make many important decisions. When Franklin Roosevelt was
a child, he was b　 　to
visit President Taft. The old president said to him. "When you grow up, you
should not be president. It's a boring job."
6．Read the passage and fill in the blanks with suitable words.
An E-mail from Pairs
Like many
lovers of books, Mary and her husband, Richard Goldman, s　 　walked past a bookstore without stopping
to look inside. They often talked of opening their own store one day
In o　 　to realize their wish, they started by
talking to bookstore owners and researching(调查)
the industry. One figure caught their attention：they'd read some-where that roughly 20 percent of books
sold were mysteries(推理小说) , and many buyers
spent more than $ 300 a year on books. Mary and Richard were t　 　mystery readers and owned a big
collection of such books.
On
Halloween 1992, they opened the Mystery Lovers Bookshop and Cafe near their
home. With three children in college, it was i　 　for the couple to spend all the family's
money to start a shop. To cover the whole $ 100, 000 cost, they drew some of
their savings, borrowed from relatives and from a bank.
The store
broke even in its first year, with only $120, 000 in sales. But Mary was always
coming up with new ways to a　 　customers.
The shop had a coffee bar and it offered gifts to mystery lovers and served
dinners for book clubs that met in the store. She also invited dozens of
writers to d　 　their
stories. Today Mystery Lovers makes sales of about $ 420, 000 a year. After
paying taxes, business costs and the six part-time sales clerks, Richard and
Mary together earn about $ 34, 000
"The
job you love may not go hand in hand with a million-dollar income," says
Richard. "This has always been about an e　 　life for ourselves, not about making a
lot of money."
7．Read the passage and fill in the blanks with suitable words.
In the Renaissance(文艺复兴) Period(1500 ~1650) , people
became interested in higher education. They wanted to learn the a　 　languages such as Greek and
Lat-in-languages that were used in the old times, and study mathematics,
science, and so on. Many universities were set up during the 16th century.
University
education was a privilege(特权) of the rich. Girls
were not allowed to attend and poor people could not a　 　to go. A member of a wealthy family
could attend university at the age of ten. He might study in different
universities and since the teaching was all d　 　in
Latin, it didn't matter which country he studied in. It was not unusual for a
young boy to study one year in Italy and another in France with-out speaking
either French or Italian.
It was p　 　in the 16th century to complete
university without learning how to read or write. Since books were handwritten,
there was not enough to give o　 　to
each student. Often, only the teacher had a book. He would read to students who
would memorize what he said, Tests were oral, not written. In fact, many students
finished school without ever writing a word.
For the
not so wealthy, grammar schools were built in towns. They learned basic grammar
and mathematics, and took part in Bible study. At home, girls learned washing,
cooking, dancing, and the basics of taking care of a household. Poor children r　 　attended
school
The
Renaissance was a time when learners did not simply accept what they were told.
They did scientific experiments themselves to search for a　 　 to
the mysteries of the space. Copernicus calculated that the Earth turned around
the sun but was afraid to publish his works for fear that the Church would
punish him. Galileo later supported this. The watch, the telescope and some
others were some inventions of this period,
8．Read the passage and fill in the
blanks with suitable words.
Many people like animals and
take them as their pets. Nowadays pet hospitals are very busy. K　 　persons who love animals are needed to
work in busy animal hospitals.
Scientists think that pets will
p　 　be
much smaller because people in the future will live in much smaller spaces.
Scientists have been already working on making very small farm animals. The
same things might be d　 　to
make cats and dogs smaller.
It's said that some day you might o　 　a lion as a pet, Scientists might have
to start turning wild animals into pets. This might be the only way to save
them from dying out
What a　 　a robot for a pet？This may sound silly, but it could
become true. Robot dogs have been made to bark like real dogs. These "pets"
might become more and more p　 　in
the future. After all, robots don't lost hair or chew on things as real pets
do.
Lots of people miss their pets
while they are on holiday. One hotel in Minnesota has solved this problem. They
lend cats to their guests. It is very possible that in the future you will be
able to order a pet as well as room s　 　, at a hotel.
9．Read the passage and fill in the blanks with suitable words.
Teenagers
can have problems with their minds. Some become worried b　 　they have to study very hard. Others have
trouble getting on well w　 　people
like their parents and classmates.
Liu Wei, a
Junior 2 student from Hefei, could not understand his teacher and was doing
badly in his lesson. He became so worried about it that he started to cut his
finger with a k　 　.
14-year-old Yan Fang from Guangzhou was a　 　of exams. She got very worried when she
looked at the exam paper. She couldn't think of a　 　to write
A recent
report from Jiefang Daily says about
18%of Shanghai teenagers have mental(心理的)
problems. Their troubles include being worried and very unhappy, and having p　 　in learning and getting on with people.
Many teenagers who have problems won't go to see a doctor. Others don't want to
talk about their secret.
Liang
Yuezhu, an expert(专家) on teenagers from
Beijing Anding Hospital, has the following advice for teenagers：
Talk to
your parents or teachers often.
T　 　part in group activities and play
sports.
Go to see
a doctor if you feel unhappy or unwell.
10．Read the passage and fill in the blanks with suitable words.
Follow that trash(垃圾)
People
don't like to talk about trash. Trash is smelly, dirty, ugly, broken, use less
stuff. That's w　 　we
throw it out. But everyone knows that trash affects our environment. It can
pollute our land, water and air. So it's important to recycle our trash as much
as possible.
Some
Americans were very interested in recycling and they were curious(好奇的)about what r　 　happened to their trash. So, what did
they do？They became d　 　and decided to "Follow that trash!"
They took
some items out of their recycling bin and put e　 　tags(标签)on
them. Signals would be s　 　to
a computer by tags so the people could follow their trash on its journey. They
found that some trash only travelling a few kilometers but some trash travelled
hundreds of kilometers. Some trash was recycled, b　 　 much of it went into landfills.
Waste
management companies in America think this detective work will be helpful to
them. Getting rid of waste is very expensive and this "trash
tracking" will help them to become more efficient. It will save them time
and money.
However, the
trash detectives say it's a　 　important
to reduce the amount of trash we produce. After all, if we produce less waste, we
won't have to worry about where it goes.
答案解析部分
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6．【答案】seldom；order；themselves；impossible；attract；discuss；enjoyable
7．【答案】ancient；afford；done；possible；one；rarely；answers
8．【答案】Kind；probably/possibly；done；own；about；popular；service
9．【答案】because；with；knife；afraid；anything；problems；Take
10．【答案】why；really；detectives；electronic；sent；but；also
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