完形填空练习（五十五）
Like many sisters, Abby and Eliza Davis couldn't be more different. Twelve-year-old Eliza is full of 1 , and always has something to say. Nine-year-old Abby is 2 . She’s happiest when she has a good book to read. Eliza 3 to be a lawyer or a clothes designer one day. She just can’t 4 to grow up and to away to college. Abby wants to be a doctor when she grows up. She works hard at math and science, her 5 subjects.
Eliza is in the seventh grade. She gets up every day at 5:30, to 6 and blow-dry her hair. She’s ready to leave the house at 6:50, to 7 her friends by the store for breakfast. The children have a mile and a half to 8 to school, and the bell rings at 7:30.
At 11:20, the children have their 9 . Some eat the hot dog, chicken pot pie, 10 other food that the school prepares for them, but Eliza would like to bring her own lunch in a lunchbox. At 2:15, classes are 11 and it’s time for sports. Eliza usually has tennis practice 12 4:30. She’s tired by the time her mother comes to get her in the car, but she still has two or three hours of 13 to do before she goes to bed.
Abby is in the fourth grade at
Like many American school children, Abby starts the day by saluting the American 16 hanging in her classroom. Then work begins. Today, She's writing a composition about her summer holidays. Her pencil 17 busily across the paper.
Abby will finish her story at home this evening, 18 Eliza does her homework. Will they work together 19 , or will they fight?
“Well,” says Abby, “We have arguments, but we get along pretty well. About fifty-fifty,” I’d say. “That’s not 20 for two such different sisters, is it?”
1. A. power B. energy C. strength D. courage
2. A. quieter B. younger C. noisier D. harder
3. A. needs B. has C. agrees D. wants
4. A. refuse B. accept C. wait D. wish
5. A. best B. lovely C. fortunate D. favourite
6. A. wash B. clean C. brush D. comb
7. A. welcome B. meet C. see D. receive
8. A. drive B. move C. walk D. travel
9. A. lunch B. cooking C. game D. supper
10. A. besides B. except C. without D. or
11. A. given B. prepared C. finished D. started
12. A. at B. by C. after D. until
13. A. housework B. homework C. cleaning D. washing
14. A. offices B. blackboards C. classrooms D. windows
15. A. buildings B. pools C. forest D. woods
16. A. flag B. map C. history D. people
17. A. jumps B. leans C. lies D. moves
18. A. while B. and C. if D. then
19. A. happily B. constantly C. peacefully D. carefully
20. A. bad B. fair C. equal D. usual
完形填空练习（五十六）
About once a month I have to go to Degford for my work. One day I went into a hotel there to have something to 1 . The waiter 2 my coat and put it in a small room.
About an hour later I was 3 to go. The waiter 4 me my coat. 5 something fell out of the pocket onto the floor. It was a small white box. Then I took a good look at the 6 . “Oh, you've brought someone 7 coat,” I said to the waiter. “It looks very much like mine, 8 it is quite new, and this isn’t my box .either.”
“Oh, then I 9 someone has taken your coat and left this,” said the waiter. “This kind of thing 10 sometimes.”
I opened the box. There was a beautiful gold ring in it. So I went 11 to the police station.
“ 12 lost a ring?” I asked.
“Yes,” said a policeman. “A young man who came in this morning lost a ring, he lost it in
He 13 the young man. A few minutes later, the man arrived.
“Yes, this is my ring,” he said. “How can I 14 you, sir? You see, I paid a lot of money for this ring and 15 I lost it on the train!”
After I told him the 16 of the coat, he said, “You haven’t been on the train. I haven’t been in the hotel. So how did my ring
“Did 18 sit or stand next to you on the train?” asked the policeman.
“Yes,” said the young man. “But I don’t remember his face.”
“You may remember this coat,” said the policeman. “Was it like this one?”
“Yes, it was,” said the young man. “But my friend here 19 the thief.”
The policeman laughed. “ 20 .” he said. “The thief on the train stole your ring, and like our friend here, he went into the hotel to get some food. Only he didn’t take the right coat away with him.”
1. A. do B. buy C. eat D. deal with
2. A. took B. found C. liked D. watched
3. A. anxious B. glad C. invited D. ready
4. A. showed B. returned C. brought D. dressed
5. A. Luckily B. Suddenly C. Obviously D. At once
6. A. ring B. box C. coat D. pocket
7. A. lost B. missed C. new D. else’s
8. A. but B. and C. instead D. for
9. A. know B. wonder C. suppose D. find
10. A. appears B. happens C. meets D. changes
11. A. around B. about C. ahead D. along
12. A. Who B. Has she C. Has anyone D. Have you
13. A. wrote to B. remembered C. telephoned D. knew
14. A. return B. thank C. find D. help
15. A. then B. so C. yet D. however
16. A. model B. price C. story D. size
17. A. come B. put C. set D. get
18. A. he B. the thief C. the waiter D. anyone
19. A. discovered B. isn’t C. has caught D. doesn’t know
20. A. I'm afraid not B. Yes C. No D. Surely
