专题练习----短文首字母填空

Passage 1

Here’s a story about Ming’s life on the waters. Ming has lived all his life on a wide r in china. His home is a large house-boat with a roof, one of hundreds that move up and down. In about six years he has he just swims across to their boats or asks them him.

Ming’s father is a fisherman, but he never u a line or a net（网）. Great black birds called cormorants do the fishing for him. Rings（圈）have been put around the birds’ nso that they cannot eat the fish to bring the fish to people. And then people reward（奖励）them with Ming loves watching the cormorants, but better still he

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Passage 2

Can animals be made to work for people? Some scientists think that one day animals may be trained（训练） of people. They say that at a circus（杂技场）,for example, we may skillful（熟练的）things. Perhaps you have seen them on the television or in a film. If you watch closely, you may find that the trainer（驯兽员）always a piece of fruit as a reward（报酬）. The scientists say that many d that.

geese to give warning（警报）a lot of noise when an enemy comes near. And also .

Passage 3

In recent years, playing kite-board seems to become more and more popular in Alaska in America. It is a the interest of many young people. The game is interesting but

A kite-board is in fact a skateboard（滑雪板）drawn（拉） as the last century. Since the board was hard to

control（控制） people dared（敢）to play it. With the development of the design（设计）of kite as about 50

kilometres an hour. If you haven’t had any practice, you’d better not play it. It is not s

（大脑的敏捷）.

Passage 4

British Milkman Steve Leech saved some shops and flats with milk and won a National Bravery Award（国家勇敢奖）.

heard a loud, strange sound behind him and then he saw smoke coming out of a shop in Cornwall, southern England. “That must be a fire, I t” Leech said. “Then I quickly d（得到控制）. of eight people in the flats above the shops.

“It was hard work omilk had gone,” Leech said jokingly.

Passage 5

（缺少）money. So he wrote to his brother, asking for

＄500. “Send the m 2 by telegram（电报）to the bank（银行）here,” he wrote. After a week Ed began his passport（护照）to the bank clerk（职员）. “Nothing has come for you, Mr. Jackson,” he was told. This went ofor three weeks, and Mr. Jackson got very He then

That evening Ed Jackson was arrested（被捕）his hotel bill（账单）. He tried to tell the