【正文】 Causes People and climate change 9______( cause) much land to turn to desert. People cutting down too many trees has harmed the land. So more cropland is lost each year, more and more people try to live for the remaining good land. This speeds up the harm to the land. Scientists are using pictures 10______(take) from space to describe the growing deserts. 最新中考英語(yǔ)謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞填空 (5) Protect wild animals A thousand years ago, Hong Kong 1_______(covered) by a thick forest. As more and more people came to live in Hong Kong, these trees 2______(cut) down and burnt. Now there is no forest 3_______(leave), though there are still some small areas are covered by trees. We call these woods. Elephants, tigers, and many other animals used to live in the thick forest. When people came to live in Hong Kong, the animals began to die out. Early farmers grew rice and 4_____(keep) pigs and chickens in the valleys（山谷） . They cut down the trees and burnt them. They needed fire 5______( keep) themselves warm in winter, to cook their food and to keep away from the dangerous animals. Elephants quickly disappeared because there was not enough food for them. So 6_____(do)most of the wolves and tigers. Monkeys and many other animals soon died for the same reason. You might think that there are no longer any animals in Hong Kong except in the zoos. But there are still about 36 different animals 7_____(live)there. One of the most interesting animals in Hong Kong is the barking deer. （赤麂） These are beautiful little animals with a rich brown coat and a white patch under the (look) like deer but they are much smaller. They are less than two feet tall. They make a sound rather like a dog barking. There are now not many barking deer 9_____(leave). So it is important for people to protect them and other wild animals. 最新中考英語(yǔ)謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞填空 (6) Heavy schoolbags Are you carrying too much on your back at school? I?m sure lots of children of your age (1)______( say) “yes”. Not only do the students in China have this problem, but also children in the United States have heavy schoolbags. Experts (2)________( start) to worry that younger and younger students (3)______ (have) back and neck problems as a result of schoolbags being too heavy for them. “It?s hard for me(4)_______( go) upstairs with my bag because it?s too heavy,” said Rick Hammond, an 11yearold student in the US. Rick is among students who have mon schoolbags with two straps(帶子 ) to carry, but many students(5)________( choose) rolling(有滾輪的 ) bags. But even with rolling bags, going upstairs and getting on buses are still problems for children. Many of them hurt their backs or necks because of the heavy schoolbags. But how much is proper for them? Doctors say students(6)________(carry) no more than 10% to 15% of their own body weight(重量 ).Scott Bautch, a back doctor, said children under Grade 4 should stay with 10%. But it is also important that other children don?t stay with over 15%, because their bodies (7)_____ still______( grow). “Children are losing their balance and falling down with their schoolbags,” he and teachers are starting to tell children to only take home the books they need (8)______( read) that night. Some teachers are using pieces of paper or thin workbooks for students (9)_______(take) of the best answers is, as some children (10)______(say), to have no homework at all! 最新中考英語(yǔ)謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞填空 (7) If you look at the sky one night and see something （ 1） _______(move) and shining that you (2)_____ never ______(see) before, it might be a et (彗星 ). A et sometimes looks like a star. Like a pla, a et has no light of its own. It shines from the sunlight it reflects (反射 ). Like the earth, a et (3)_______(go) round the sun, but on a much longer path (軌道 ) than the earth travels. If a et isn?t a star, what is it then? Some scientists think that a large part of a et is water frozen into pieces of ice and (4)______(mix) with iron and rock dust and perhaps a few big pieces of rock. When sunshine melts (融化 ) the ice in the et, great clouds of gas go trailing after it. These clouds, together with the dust, form a long tail. Many people perhaps (5)______(see) a et. However no one knows how many ets there are. There (6)_______( be) millions of ets, but only a few e close enough for us to see. An Englishman (7)_______(name) Edmund Halley, who lived from 1656 to 1742, found out a lot about the paths that ets take through the sky. Some ets move out of our sight and never e back. Others keep (8)________(e) back at regular times. A big et that keeps ing back was named after Halley because he was the one who worked out when it(9)_______(e) back again. Maybe you have ever seen Halley?s Comets because the last time it came close to the sun and the earth was in the year 1986. Then people all over the world were outside at night to look at it. You (10)____probably ______( see) Halley?s Comets when it es near the earth again. 最新中考英語(yǔ)謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞填空 (8) Mr Clark (1)___________ (bear) in a small town of England. When he finished middle school, he (2)____________(find) work in the police station and he (3)___________(work) there for 42 years and he?ll retire(退休 )this autumn. He tried to work hard in the past 42 years but he wasn?t a lucky man and never caught a thief. He was often sorry for it. Last weekend, when Mrs Clarke (4)____________ (cook) supper, she found there was no sugar. So she asked her husband (5)____________ (buy) some in the shop near their house. He came in the shop and found a young man (6)__________ (steal) some money from a woman?s bag. He ran to the thief quickly, but the young man found and (7)___________ (run) away at onec. Mr Clarke ran after him. The thief ran into a blind alley（ 死胡同 ） and Mr Clarke (8)__________ (catch) him at last. “Please give me a chance, sir, said the young man