细心整理短文填空专题练习Passage 1Heres a story about Mings 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 not once been on l ,but he is never lonely. He is a strong swimmer. In fact,he could swim before he could walk. When he wants to play with his f ,he just swims across to their boats or asks them to v him.Mings father is a fisherman, but he never u a line or a net. Great black birds called cormorants do the fishing for him. Rings have been put around the birds n so that they cannot eat the fish they catch. They have been taught to b the fish to people. And then people reward them with a fine big fish as soon sa their work is f . Ming loves watching the cormorants, but better still he likes going s with his mother. The shops, of course, are boats very like his o .Passage 2Can animals be made to work for people? Some scientists think that one day animals may be trained训练to do a number of simple jobs i of people. They say that at a circus杂技场,for example, we may see elephants, monkeys, dogs and other animals doing q skillful娴熟的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 g the animal some sugar o a piece of fruit as a reward酬报. The scientists say that many d animals may be trained to do a lot of simple things if they know they will get a reward f doing that.Of course, as we know, dogs can be trained to look after a house, and soldiers in both old and modern t have u geese to give warning警报by m a lot of noise when an enemy comes near. And also it may be possible to train animals to work in families or f .Passage 3In recent years, playing kiteboard seems to become more and more popular in Alaska in America. It is a new and old game. The game has w the interest of many young people. The game is interesting but a little d . One needs to play it very c .A kiteboard is in fact a skateboard滑雪板drawn拉by a few big flying kites. The old game was p by some young people in Holand and Spain as e as the last century. Since the board was hard to control限制,f people dared敢to play it. With the development of the design设计of kite and skateboard, many people can l .How to play it. A kite board may go as f as about 50 kilometres an hour. If you havent had any practice, youd better not play it. It is not s .It is said that the game can exercise not only your b , but also the sensitivity of your brain大脑的迅捷.Passage 4 British Milkman Steve Leech saved some shops and flats公寓with milk and won a National Bravery Award国家英勇奖.Leech, 35 years old, said that when he was sending out milk as u along Pine Street, he s 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 to do something. So I p the door in and then I s for the people inside. Then I started pouring milk e .” He used 320 pints of milk to stop the fire. When firefighters r the shop, the fire was under control得到限制.Leech helped save the l of eight people in the flats above the shops.“It was hard work o all those bottles. But it was even harder trying to tell my boss where all the milk had gone,” Leech said jokingly.Passage 5While traveling in Russia, Ed Jackson ran shout of缺少money. So he wrote t his brother, asking for 500. “Send the m by telegram电报to the bank银行here,” he wrote. After a week Ed began v the bank. He s his passport护照to the bank clerk职员. “Nothing has come for you, Mr. Jackson,” he was told.This went o for three weeks, and Mr. Jackson got very w . He then phoned his brother, asking w the money was. The brother said it had been sent three weeks b . That evening Ed Jackson was arrested被捕for failing to p his hotel bill账单. He tried to tell the police what his problem was, but no one would believe him. At last he was s to the police station for fifteen days.Passage 6April Fools Day is on April 1st. People can play j on others on this special d . If you succeed, you usually laugh and say “April Fool!” The person who has been fooled by you l , too, and he will never be angry with you.Mothers Day is on the second Sunday of May. Its a day to t mothers. On that day mothers usually receive flowers and cards from their children. Fathers and children do the housework so that mothers can have a r .Easter Day falls on the first Sunday after the full moon which is on or after March 21 st. Its also called Easter Sunday. It is said that