上海中考英语冲刺首字母训练题2
Passage 3
In recent years, playing kite-board seems to become more and more popular in Alaska in America. It is a new and old game. The game has w 1 the interest of many young people. The game is interesting but a little d 2. One needs to play it very c 3 .
A kite-board is in fact a skateboard(滑雪板)drawn(拉)by a few big flying kites. The old game was p 4 by some young people in Holland and Spain as e 5 as the last century. Since the board was hard to control, f 6 people dared(敢)to play it. With the development of the design of kite and skateboard, many people can l 7 how to play it. A kite board may go as f 8 as about 50 kilometers an hour. If you haven’t had any practice, you’d better not play it. It is not s 9 .
It is said that the game can exercise not only your b 10 but also the sensitivity of your brain(大脑的敏捷).
Passage 4
British Milkman Steve Leech saved some shops and flats with milk and won a National Bravery Award(国家勇敢奖).
Leech, 35 years old, said that when he was sending out milk as u 1 along Pine Street, he s 2 heard a loud, strange sound behind him and then he saw smoke coming out of a shop in Cornwall, southern England. “That must be a fire, I t 3 ” Leech said. “Then I quickly d 4 to do something. So I p 5 the door in and then I s 6 for the people inside. Then I started pouring milk e 7 . ” He used 320 pints of milk to stop the fire. When firefighters r 8 the shop, the fire was under control.
Leech helped save the l 9 of eight people in the flats above the shops.
“It was hard work o 10 all those bottles. But it was even harder trying to tell my boss where all the milk had gone,” Leech said jokingly.