2019年中考英语短文填空专项练习(2)

Another interesting finding from the PISA survey was that girls tend（趋向于）to be better than boys at working together. They said girls show more active attitudes （态度）towards relationships, which means they are much e___6___ to communicate with.

PISA also found that the classroom environment tends to e___7___ students t collaborate. In classes where there are a lot of activities that require communication, such as class debates, students tend to have better attitude toward collaborating.

（七）

The inhaler（喷雾剂）was lying there on the table. Cassie froze.

“Oh no!” she breathed. “Not again!”

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She looked at the little green c__1__ on the cooker—12:17. The train would leave at 12:34 and her grandpa had been gone around four minutes. Could she –f she ran like a racehorse – get to the station before he got on the train? There was no time to lose. She grabbed her jacket, her keys and her purse. Her fingers m__2__ fast to tie her shoes, but too fast to be accurate. She opened the front door and shut it heavily behind her.

Her b__3__ began to work fast, “Which is the quickest way to find him? Should I g__4__ which route he has taken and may be lucky enough to catch up with him? Or should I just get to the station the fastest possible way and hope to be there when he arrives? But there are two entrances to the station. He might take e__5__. What should I do?”

Cassie was worried about her grandfather. As she ran through the shopping centre, she pictured him sitting on the train, and then s__6__ his breath becoming difficult, and his face turning pale. He would search for the inh aler and it wouldn’t be in his pocket.

A man was setting out a table in front of his café. There was no space between him and the table. She ran into him and knocked him down. “Sorry!” she tried to call out as she raced past him, but she had so little breath that she only made a very

w__7__ sound. She knew he didn’t hear her, but she couldn’t stop.

At last she was at the station. She looked at her watch. It was 12:30 and she still hadn’t seen her grandfather.

（八）

Moblog is a combination of two words. The first word is mobile, which means a mobile camera. The second word is blog, a website for posting words and pictures. Typically, mobloggers are people who take photos or videos with their phones and post them on the Internet. Moblogging has c___1___ a lot of excitement and concern.

With a picture phone or a moblog, anyone can be a r___2___. Moblogging first got the world’ attention during a terrorist attack on four London buses. People were posting photos on the Internet many minutes b___3___ real journalists. And, information about about car accidents has been broadcast right away.

Moblogging is i___4___. People on some moblogs you can find photos of friends making funny faces, photos from people traveling, and photos of new babies. Other moblogs might be spotting famous people, pictures of food in restaurants, or new clothes.

However, moblogs can be dangerous, too. Not long ago in Korea, a woman’s dog made a mess on the train, but she r___5___ to clean it up, became angry, and left. Her picture we taken and posted on the Internet, along with the story of what she did. People all around the country were angry with her. Imagine how she felt!

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Moblogging can be wonderful, but it is really r___6___ to post another person’s picture on the Internet without asking for permission. One idea from Japan may help: people can no longer q___87___ take pictures with their cell phones, Japanese cell phones“click”like a real camera when you take a picture.

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