2023年重庆中考短文填空培优专项（二）

培优训练 短文填空 （1） Before dawn we were up, in the blackness of the early tropic hours, seeing to the guns, 1 order to start the moment the light permitted tracking. 2 a native appeared like a ghost out of the darkness by our tents. The tiger had eaten of the dead buffalo(水牛) with which we had hoped to bait him! Excitement caught us. A tiger--our chance at last! “Are you sure that it is a tiger which has eaten? ” We want to know, remembering 3 day when we had waited and waited and a giant reptile(爬行动物), not a tiger, had appeared. The tracker was positive. The buffalo had been eaten as a tiger begins eating---at the tail. The tiger must be somewhere near, ready to return. We must hurry to reach our bush 4 the light came. Hurriedly, we swallowed some hot coffee and had a bite or two of bread 5 the horses were led up; then we mounted and set out, the tracker running along ahead of us 6 guide. The land was ghostly with the first signs of morning, and through the grayness the giant pines(松树林) rose darkly like columns. The guide circled in and out the trees, and our horses followed closely. Then 7 got off the horses and stole through the brush on 8 till we were on the edge of the ravine(峡谷), directly above the dead buffalo. More than half-way down the steep slope(陡坡) was the bush; across which a screen of reeds(芦苇) had been built, and the buffalo was a hundred and fifty feet beyond that, directly in front of the green wall of the jungle. 答案：1. in 根据句意，这里是一个固定搭配表示目的 in order to. 2. Suddenly 根据文章里的a native appeared like a ghost out of the darkness by our tents的like a ghost, 可知是比较突然的。 3. the 根据句中的when we had waited and waited ....可知是特指的那一 天，所以这里用the. 4. before 根据We must hurry to reach our bush...这句话，我们必须快点到 达丛林，不是可能有老虎，可知应在天亮之前。 5. while 根据 ...had a bite or two of bread ____ the horses were led