完形填空（共15小题，每小题1分，计15分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
As Grade 9 students,we are busy studying for the coming entrance exam.Every day we have lots of exercises to do and many ________to take .Some of us feel upset,and some even lose heart.But we’ll not help _________if we lose heart. There’s a saying ,”Difficulty is like a spring(弹簧).If you are weak,it will be ___________.”If we have a problem we should face it_________ a smile.Once I__________ a short story called The Smile. In this book,he __________his experiences as a soldier in World War II. He ________by enemy and sent to jail.(监狱)But he tried to think of ways to run away.__________he wanted to smoke ,but he had no match. So he asked his jailor for a ________.When the jailor came up to him ,he smiled _____________and naturally.The jailor seemed to be affected and smile,too.Then they began to talk. They __________took out pictures of their families and showed them to each other.The soldier said sadly he would never see his ___________again because he was to be killed .He would never have a chance to see his children grow up.The jailor was moved by the soldier’s words.___________saying a word ,he unlocked the cell and quickly let him go .The soldier was saved__________ a smile ,t Even in a terrible solution the man was optimistic .He didn’t__________.Surely we can do the same.Life is like a mirror,if you smile at it,it will smile back at you,too.
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完形填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
The Sled (雪橇) Dog Race was about to begin. Susan’s team of dogs was lined up at the starting gate. Susan stood behind them. teams were lined up, too, and the dogs were excited. Susan kept her on the clock. At exactly ten o’clock, she and the other racers yelled, “Mush!” The dogs knew that meant “ !” They ran forward and the race began! Susan had trained months for this race, and she hoped she and her dogs would win. Day after day, Susan’s dogs the sled to get ready for the race.
Now, they ran over snowy hills and into deep valleys (山谷). They stopped only to rest and eat. The racers had to go a thousand miles across Alaska. Alaska is one of the places on Earth. The dogs’ thick fur coats helped keep them warm. In many places along the route（线路）, the snow was . Pieces of ice were as sharp (锋利的) as a knife. The ice could cut the dogs’ feet. To keep that from happening, Susan had put special boots on their feet.
At first, the dogs seemed to pull the sled very slowly. They were getting used to the race. On the third day, they began to pull more quickly. They worked as a and passed many of the other racers. Once, one of the dogs dropped into a hole and the sled . Susan could have given up then, but she didn’t. She fixed it and they kept going. When they finally reached the finish line, they found out that they had come in first place!
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完型填空
There are many different ways of seeing a town for the first time. One of them is to walk around it, guide-book in hand. Of course, with our guide-books we may the history and special developments of a town and get to know them. But then, if we take our time and stay in a town for a while, we may get to know it better. When we look at it as a whole, we begin to have some________which even the best guide-books do not answer. Why is the town just this, this shape, this plan, this size? Why do its streets run in this particular （特别的）way, and not in any other way?
Here even the best guide-book ________ to tell us. One can’t find in it the information about how a town has developed to the ________ appearance. It may not describe the original （最初的）design of a town. However, one may get some idea of what it ________ to look like by walking around the town. One can also imagine ________ the town was first planned and built. Then one can learn more about in what direction the town ________ to develop.
What’s the point of studying towns in the way? For me, I’m sure one can get greater ________ by visiting and seeing a town with one’s own eyes. A personal visit to a town may help one better understand why it is attractive ________just reading about it in a guide-book.
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完型填空
The friendship between us never fades(褪色). Mary Allen was my best friend—like a sister I never . We did everything together: piano lessons, movies, swimming, horseback riding, and so on.
When I was 13, my family moved. Mary and I in touch through letters, and we saw each other on special days— like my wedding and Mary’s. Soon we were with children and moving to new homes, and we wrote less. One day a card that I sent came back, “Address Unknown.” I had no idea how to find Mary.
Over the years, I thought of Mary often. I wanted to stories of my children and then grandchildren. I needed to share my sadness when my brother and then my mother died. There was an empty place in my heart that only a friend like Mary could .
One day I was reading a newspaper I noticed a picture of a young woman who looked a lot like Mary and whose last name was Wagman— Mary’s married name. “There must be thousands of Wagmans,” I thought, I wrote to her anyway.
She as soon as she got my letter. “Mrs. Tobin!” she said excitedly, “Mary Allen Wagman is my mother.” Minutes later I heard a voice that I knew very much, even after 40 years. We laughed and cried and asked about each other’s .
Now the empty place in my heart is filled, and there is one thing that Mary and I know for sure: We won’t lose each other again!
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完形填空
Once there was a father and a son. They were ill-tempered(坏脾气的) and never gave way to .One day the father to ask some friends to dinner in his house. He his son to buy some meat in town. When the son walked towards the town gate, a man was coming from the outside. The gate wasn’t enough to let two men in and out at the same time. But neither of would give way to the other. They stood straight face to face inside the gate hour after hour. But the father was worried. “What shall I do? My son hasn’t yet. I can’t wait any more.” He wanted to know what was the with his son. So he left his friends at home, and went to town his son. “You may first take the home for my friends .Let me here instead.” he said to his son when he knew what had happened.
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完形填空
先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项.
A good dictionary is an important tool. It will tell you not only what a word means but also how it is used. A dictionary needs to be printed again about every ten years. Languages develop and a good dictionary must show these new changes.
A new English dictionary will only tell you most people use the language today. It will not tell you what is right wrong. It may tell you the right time to use a word. If only________ people use a word, a dictionary will tell you this or not list it.
Every dictionary will tell you many interesting facts. If you type a word and the word is too long, look it up in your dictionary. All dictionaries show you to break a word. And they also show you how a word .
Every dictionary, of course, tells you what a word means. But some words, like “get” or “take”, may have lots of meanings. In some dictionaries, the main meanings are often listed first. In ________ , the newest meanings are listed last. So before you use your dictionary, you should always ________ the front part. This part explains how to use it.
Some dictionaries also show you where a word comes from. Do you know that the word “brand” (标记) comes from an old word? This old word means “to burn”. This is because hundreds of years ago people burned their names on tables or boats to show who ________ them. They also burned their own names on their farm animals ________ they would not be stolen.
Your dictionary also has a lot of other interesting facts in it. After you have learned to use a dictionary, it can become your best useful book.
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