2021年中考英语短文填空与阅读表达专项练习十三（外研版）

美文阅读 25 (一) As we know, the tortoise（龟） carries his house on his back. It's 1 (say) that Jupiter punished him so, because he was such a lazy stay-at-home that he wouldn’t go to Jupiter’s wedding(婚礼), even when he was 2 (especial) invited. After many years, the tortoise began to wish he had gone to that wedding. Every time he saw how birds flew and how the other animals 3 (run), he felt very sad. He wanted to see the world too. ____A_____, there was a house on his back and his little short legs could 4 (hard) drag (拖) him along. One day, he 5 (meet) a pair of ducks and told them all his troubles. “We can help you to see the world.”said the ducks. “Take hold of this stick with your 6 (tooth) and we will carry you far up in the air. Then you will be able 7 (see) the whole countryside. But keep quiet, or you 8 (die).” The tortoise was very excited. He took hold of the stick firmly. Then, the two ducks took hold of the stick, one at each end, and away they sailed up towards the clouds. Just then, a crow flew by. He was very surprised and cried. “This must be the King of tortoises!” “Yeah, I...” said the tortoise. But B he opened his mouth, he 9 (lose) his hold on the stick. He fell to the ground and lost his life. As we can learn from this story, sometimes we must keep our mouth 10 (shut). (1) 1-10小题用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。 (2) 猜测文中黑体单词“stay-at-home”、“firmly”的汉语意思。_________ ________ (3) A、B两处填入合适的单词：__________ _________ (二) There was a tree in my garden. One day, two birds came to the tree and 1 (build) a house of their three newborn babies. One morning, I was getting up when I 2 (hear) the sound of the little birds. I ran out of my bedroom and found two babies 3 (eat) food on the ground in the garden. I thought they dropped off their house, _____A_____ I decided to help them get back to their house. At that time, the father bird and the mother bird came back. They brought some food for their baby. Th