2016屆中考英語完形填空
例二：parent, tell, call, celebrate, together, why, start, after, shop, newspapermost people buy lots of presents just before christmas. but some people think we buy too much. they have started a special day (1) _______ buy nothing day. they don’t want anyone to go (2) _______ on that day. buy nothing day is november 29. it is (3) _______ thanksgiving. often, before christmas we see many ads in (4) _______ and on tv (5) _________ us to “buy, buy, buy!” the idea for buy nothing day (6) _______ in vancouver, canada. now people all over the world (7) _______ buy nothing day. in california, the us, (8) _________ and children get (9) _______ to read stories, sing songs, and draw pictures. the children talk about (10) _______ they don’t need a lot of toys.本文是向考生介紹一個特殊的日子——buy nothing day，因此第1空應填called。既然是buy nothing day，那就應該是不讓人們“購物 (go shopping)”。第3空考查常識，buy nothing day的日期是november 29，應該在thanksgiving之后，故此空白處應填after。“看見廣告”通常應在報紙上或電視上，因此第4空白處應填newspapers。結合文意可知第5空白處應填寫一個動詞，并且能用動詞不定式作復合賓語，此動詞應是tell，此處應用“動詞-ing”形式，即telling。 第6空白處所在的句子是介紹buy nothing day的起源，是過去的事情，應用started。現在，世界各地也像慶祝其他節日一樣來慶祝buy nothing day，因此第7個空白處應填寫celebrate (慶祝)。第8空白處應填parents與children對應。第9空白處應填together與動詞get構成get together短語，意思是“團聚”。第10空白處應填why來澄清“they don’t need a lot of toys”的原因。三、實踐評估自測section onefill in the blanks with the right forms of the proper words in the box. each word should be used only once. (1)agree, leave, pay, taste, as, thank, place, thief, polite, comeyou’ve finished eating a (1)_______ meal in a british restaurant and the bill has been paid. but why are people giving more money? are they mad? not at all. they’re (2)_______ a tip. a tip is a small amount of money that you give to someone to say “thank you” for good service. tipping is very common in many (3)_______ in britain. for example, it’s common to tip in restaurants, taxis, hotels and even hairdressers! people give 10 to 15 per cent of the final bill (4)_______ a tip. sometimes the tip is added to the bill. other times you leave the money after having (5)_______. these days, it can be (6)_______ not to give a tip. it’s normal now to tip people even you haven’t had good service! this new custom has (7)_______ from america. tipping like this has only been in britain for the last 20 years. lots of british people do not (8)_______ with this. once, british people would only tip if they had very good service. british people also tip other people, like window cleaners and the postman as a way of (9)_______ them for doing a good job. people usually do this at a special time of the year, such as christmas. this is an old british custom. some people think the word “tip” comes from a slang(行話) word used by (10)_______ a long time ago in britain. then, “tip” meant “to pass one form another”.