2022年中考英语人教新目标版专题训练之词语运用（五）（习题）.docx

Passage 17We live in a small town and almost everyone knows each other. It used to be very quiet. Nothing much ever happened l.a here. However, these days, something 2.(usual) is happening in our town. Victor, a 3. (teach) at my school, is really nervous. When he was 4.(interview ) by the town newspaper, he said, “ Every night we hear strange noises outside our window. My wife thinks that it could be an animal, but my friends and I think it must be teenagers 5.(have ) fun. My parents called the policemen, but they couldn't find anything strange. They think it might be 6.t wind. Idon't think so ! ”One woman in the area 7. ( see ) something running away, but it was dark so she is not sure. nI think it was too big to be a dog,“ she said. "Maybe it was a bear 8.a wolf.”Everyone in our town is 9.(feel) uneasy, and everyone has his or her own ideas. There must be something visiting the homes in 10. (we)neighborhood, but what is it? We have no idea. Most people hope that this animal or person will simply go away, but I do not think that is going to happen. The noise-maker is having too much fun creating fear in the neighborhood.Passage 18When we watch movie about the future, we sometimes see robots. They are usually just like human servants. They help 1. w the housework and do jobs like 2. (work) in dirty or dangerous places.Today there are already robots working in factories. For 3.e, they can help to build cars, and they do simple jobs over and over again. Fewer people will do such jobs in 4. future because they are boring, but robots will never get bored.Some scientists believe that there will be 5.(many ) robots in the future. However, they agree it may take hundreds of years. Scientists are now 6.(try) to make robots look like humans and do the same things as us. Some robots in Japan can even walk and dance. They are fun to watch. But scientist James White 7.(think) that it will be difficult for a robot to do the same things as a person. For example, it is easy for 8. (child) to wake up and know where they are. Mr. White thinks that robots won't be able to do this. But some scientists 9. (agree). They think that robots will even be able to talk like humans in 25 to 50 years.New robots will have many different shapes. Some will look humans, and others might look like snakes. If buildings fall down with people inside, snake robots will be able to help look for people under the buildings. That may not seem possible now, but computers and rockets seemed impossible 100 years 10. We never know what will happen in the future!Passage 19In November 1979, pupils in England were able to watch anew TV program called Monkey. 1. (much) of them were hearing this story for the 2.(one) time. 3. H, this story is not new to Chinese children. The Monkey King or Sun Wukong is the main character in the 4.t Chinese book Journey to the West.The story says that once upon a time there was a magic rock. One day, it suddenly broke open and gave birth to a monkey. The Monkey King is not just any normal monkey. In fact, he sometimes does not even look 5. a monkey ! This isbecause he can make 72 changes to his shape and size, turning himself 6. different animals and objects. But unless he can hide his tail, he can not turn 7.(he) into a person. To fight bad people, the Monkey King 8. (use) a magic stick. Sometimes he can make the stick so small that he can keep it in his ear. At other times, he is able to make it big and long.The Monkey king has 9.(excite) the children ofChina many years. And as soon as the TV program came outmore than 30 years ago, Western children became interested in reading this story because the clever Monkey King keeps 10. (fight) to help the weak and never gives up.Passage 20In May 2001,1 found a job in New York at the World Trade Center. On September 11,2001, I arrived at my 1. (build) at around 8:30 a.m. I was about to go up when I decided to get a coffee 2.(one ). I went to my favorite coffee place even 3. t it was two blocks away from my office. As I was 4.(wait ) in line with other office workers, I heard a loud sound. Before I could join the others outside to see what was going on, the first plane had already hit my office building. We stared in disbelief at the black smoke 5. (rise )above the burning building. I felt lucky to be 6.a.Almost 10 years later, I woke up at 10:00 a.m. on February 21, 2011 and realized that my alarm never 7.(go) off. I jumped out of bed and went straight to the airport. But by the time I got to the airport, my 8. to New Zealand had already taken off. This is the first holiday I've taken in a year, and now I've 9.(miss ) my plane.What bad luck! I thought to myself. The other planes were full so I had to wait till the next day. The next morning, I heard 10. the earthquake in New Zealand the day before. My bad luck had unexpectedly turned into a good thing.