中考英语短文填空练习一

用所给词的适当形式填空。

call , swim , anything , clever , bear , can , his , give , girl , something , read , take

Many years ago , there was a family ___1___ Franklin. They lived in Boston. There were five ___2___ and six boys in the family. On a January day in 1760, another baby boy ___3___. They boy’s mother and his father ___4___ the boy a name — Benjamin.
Benjamin was the ___5___ of all the children. He could read when he was five and he ___6___ write by the time he was seven. When he was eight he was sent to school.
In school Benjamin had been good at ___7___ and writing but not good at math. He read all of ___8___ father’s books. And whenever （每当）he had a little money, he bought a book with it . He liked books. They told him how to do ___9___. At that time he invented the paddles （脚蹼）for ___10___ .

答案：1. called 2. girls 3. was born 4. gave 5. cleverest 6. could 7. reading 8. his 9. somehing 10. swimming