2021年中考英语短文填空与阅读表达专项练习十二（外研版）

美文阅读 23 (一） This story was told long ago by the ancient people in Australia. Once there was a child A parents were__1____( die), so he was left to his relatives. However, the relatives treated him__2__ (bad). They didn't allow him ___3___(drink) the water they had collected far away, so the boy was thirsty most of the time. The child was even told 4 (eat) eucalyptus leaves (桉 树叶) when he was hungry. One day, after all the relatives left, the boy drank the water from his ___5___(relative)water bottles. Then he___6___( hang) the bottles on a small tree and began to sing some ancient songs. __7____(Sudden), the tree began to grow very tall. When his relatives returned, they found the boy was in the tree with their bottles.They became very angry, for they __8___( not reach) the water and they knew the boy had played jokes on them. But they said that they would be friendly to the boy B he came down and brought the water bottles with him. However, as soon as the boy made his way down to the ground, his relatives started beating him with sticks and stones until his body was quite soft. Mad with anger, they continued to beat him until a strange thing happened at last. The boy began to change. He became a koala (考 拉) and climbed up the tree. The relatives cut down the tree and the koala boy __9____(appear). The bottles on the tree fell down and became a river. Since that time, koalas have been treated with respect ,or all the water in the land __10__(dry) up. (1)1-10小题用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。 (2)猜猜加粗黑色单词和短语的意思： sticks ：____ respect: _____ (3)A、B 两处填入合适的单词：A_______B _____ (4.)At last the boy became a_______and the bottles became a _________. (二) It was a cold morning. Two 1 (woman) sat like two little school girls in the corner of the school playground. Unaware (未察觉到的) that they were being watched, they were joyful and innocent (天真的). I wondered what they 2 (do), and as I got A to them, they started to hide what they were doing. What they were doing was u