中考英语完形填空（二）

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Rosa liked making up stories. She was so __1__ that her classmates believed her from time to time. In fact, the whole class believed her! At first she supposed it was __2__. Now, as she got up to __3__ before the class, She knew that make –believe stories had some way of coming back to make you sad.

Rosa’s parents were separated. Nine months out of the year, Rosa lived with her mother in an apartment on Anderson Street. But when summer __4__, she went to her father’s farm in Arizona.

The farm was great! Rosa rode horses and __5__ with some farm work. Her father, however, was so __6__ that he couldn’t find time to go places with her. When she arrived each summer, her father would __7__ her at the airport and take her out to eat. And the day she went back to the __8__ he would always buy her a present.

When summer came to a close, Rosa __9__ to her mother. At school she heard lots of stories her friends told about their family trips. Rosa wished she had a __10__ to talk about.

Not long after __11__ began, Rosa was looking through travel magazines in the school library. They talked about many exciting __12__, like England and Germany. When Rosa’s friends asked what she had done that summer, she made up something that was not __13__. Remembering the travel magazines she had looked at, she told her classmates that she and her father had gone to __14__.

When the class began studying England, Mr. Thomas asked Rosa to tell all the things she could __15__ about her trip to England!

1. A. afraid            B. worried      C. sure           D. happy

2. A. joke           B. fun            C. turn      D. game

3. A. talk           B. teach         C. show            D. travel

4. A. passed        B. arrived       C. lasted      D. changed

5. A. made         B. played       C. helped    D. did

6. A. weak         B. pleased       C. busy      D. lonely

7. A. show          B. visit          C. meet          D. send

8. A. farm          B. city            C. family       D. school

9. A. wrote        B. called         C. moved      D. returned

10. A. family     B. school        C. teacher      D. farm

11. A. meeting      B. school        C. summer     D. talk

12. A. people       B. cities         C. languages D. places

13. A interesting    B. true           C. long           D. same

14. A. England       B. Germany    C. farm         D. home

15. A. think           B. see            C. remember D. read

名师点评

本文讲述了父母已离异的罗莎喜欢编谎言骗人，从中获得乐趣。暑假过后其他同学都在谈假期中的家庭旅游时，罗莎只得自欺欺人，骗大家说她与爸爸去了英国。结果上课时，老师让她谈英国的情况时，她无话可说了。

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