完形填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从下面四个答案中选择可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案。（本大题共10分，每小题1分）
The terrible story of the whale(鲸鱼)
As soon as he finished his homework, Eric jumped on his bicycle and rode off in the direction of the beach. While he was _____ along, he thought about the whales. He hoped he would see them again today. After he got to the beach, Eric ______ his bicycle behind a bush so that no one could see it from the road. Then he ran down to the beach. ______ it was only four in the afternoon, the sky was already getting dark. Eric Frowned(皱眉). If it _____, he wouldn’t be able to see the whales because they would stay in deeper water. He hurried along the beach _____ the rocks. They were the best places to watch the whales because of their ______. Before Eric reached the rocks he felt a drop of water on his head. “Oh no!” he thought. “Now the whales will stay in the deep water and I won’t be able to ______ them!” But just then he saw a large shape on the beach. It was a young whale! The whale was too close to the shore(海岸) and got stuck(搁浅) on the _____! At first the whale didn’t move at all and Eric thought it was _____! Then he saw its tail move weakly. Eric turned and ran in the rain as fast as he could back to his bicycle. He had to get ______! If they didn’t get the whale back in the water soon, it would die and Eric couldn’t let that happen.
A．riding B．running C．getting D．walking
A．sent B．hid C．took D．got
A．As B．Since C．Because D．Although
A．shone B．showed C．rained D．blew
A．into B．off C．to D．from
A．length B．size C．height D．shape
A．see B．kill C．catch D．save
A．rock B．beach C．road D．bicycle
A．dead B．pretty C．lovely D．alive
A．care B．water C．medicine D．help
【2012苏州市中考】Is the art of conversation dying? The other day, my wife two teenage children did something we haven’t for ages. It didn’t require the Internet, a TV screen, batteries… or anything else for that matter. But we all it so much we’re thinking of doing it again sometime.
We had a conversation. The kind of real, live conversation that was when I was growing up, but which seems all too rare these days. Today we have chat rooms, text messages, e-mails but we seem to be losing the of communicating face-to-face. We all know young people are out on a date(约会）these days, they spend most of that time their mobile phones. And teenagers nowadays seem to communicating with their friends by sending text messages rather than actually to them.
If we carry on like this，in the future, we’ll lose the use of our . What do you think? E-mail me, and who knows? Maybe we could even have a real conversation about it!
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【2012年山东济南】In 1608 an Englishman named Thomas Coryate traveled in Italy .He liked the country and down everything interesting. But he found one thing interesting than the others. In his diary Thomas wrote，“ the Italian eat meat，they use small forks. They do not eat with their hands because，as they say，people do not always have hands.” Before he went back to England，Thomas Coryate bought a few .
At home Thomas had a dinner party to show the forks to his friends. When the steak（牛排）
was brought out，he took out a fork and wanted to the steak as the Italians did in Italy. His friends were when they saw this. He told them what the fork was. They all said that Italians were very strange people because the fork was not easy to use at all. Thomas Coryate tried to prove that his friends were ，so he began to show that it was easy to use the fork. But the first of meat he took with the fork fell to the floor. His friends began to at him and he had to take the fork away.
People in England began to use forks only fifty years later.
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【2012安徽中考】The umbrella is a very common object. It keeps the and the sun off the people. Most umbrellas can be folded up[折叠] so it is to carry them. However,the umbrella has not always been as as it is now. In the past,it was a symbol of importance.Some African countries still use umbrellas in this .Someone carries an umbrella and walks behind the king or important person.
Umbrellas are very old.People in different parts of the world began to umbrellas at different times. The Chinese had them more than 3,000 years ago. From there,umbrellas to India and Egypt. In Greece and Rome, wouldn't use them. They believed umbrellas were only for women. England was the first country in Europe where common people used umbrellas against rain.The weather there is very and umbrellas are very useful. Everybody uses umbrellas today. The next time you 60 one, thinking that for centuries only great men and women used them, you'll feel you are important people,too.
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【2013浙江杭州】Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, a distance of about 80 miles. It was late, I was late, and I was driving _________.
At one point along an open highway, I came to a crossroads with a traffic light. I was _________ on the road by now, but as I came near the light, it turned _________, and I braked to a stop. I looked left, right, and behind me. Nothing. Not a car, no suggestion of headlights, _________ there I sat, waiting for the light to _________, the only human being, for at least a mile in any _________.
I started wondering why I _________ to run the light. I was not afraid of being caught, because there was _________ no policeman anywhere around and there certainly would have been no _________ in going through it.
Much later that ________, after I’d met with a group in Lewisburg and had climbed into bed near midnight, the question of why I’d stopped for that light ________ me. I think I stopped ________ it’s part of a contract(契约) we all have with each other. It’s not only the law, but it’s an agreement we have, and we trust each other to follow ________: we don’t go through red lights.
We do ________ we say we’ll do. We show up when we say we’ll show up.
I was so ________ of myself for stopping for that red light. And as no one would ever have known what a good person I was on the road from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, I had to tell s someone.
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【2013湖北武汉】完形填空 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。
“I’m really thankful to our government, for it provides us with such a good training program. The training greatly helps us live well. I will certainly study hard and learn the skills. Then I can my family difficulties and do good to other people.” a learner on the job training program said, feeling .
The learner’s grandfather is nearly 80 years old, and has mother is in bed. So his father, who is a farmer, is the main of the family. The family is poor. The learner graduated from high school and did not the college entrance exam. The job training program helps him learn the skills that he’ll in the work place.
The story reminds me of another . It goes like this: Once upon a time, there was a man who liked fishing very much, and was to catch lots of fish every day. The man was a kind-hearted person, so he always his fish with his neighbors who did not know how to fish. One day, he thought that it would be if he taught them how to fish. So he his neighbors together and showed them how to fish. Everybody was very happy that they could the fish they themselves caught.
At present, there are still a lot of poor people throughout the world. But it’s not good if we give only to them. , we should give them a chance to learn new skills. Therefore, a technical training is very important to people in need, and the will learn the ability to money. People can learn a lot of useful things in the training program and what they learn can help them on the way to find jobs.
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