【正文】 d it will also cost a lot of money. But __4 do so many people in the United States want to lose weight? Many people in the United States worry about their look of the body. For many people, looking nice also means to be 5 . Other people worry about their health as many doctors 6 overweight is not good. Most people want to find an 7 way to take off fat, and books of this kind are very popular. These books tell people how to lose weight. Each year a lot of new books like these are 8 . Each one says it can easily help people take fat away. Losing weight can be 9 . Some overweight people go to health centres, like La Costa in California. Men and women 10 several hundred dollars a day at these health centres. People live there for one week or two, 11 exercise, eating different foods. Meals there may be just a little. All these work for losing weight. __12__ 4 days on the programme, one woman called Mrs. Warren lost 5 pounds (). At $ 400 a day, she spent $ 320 to lose each pound. But she said she was still __13__ to do so. Health centres, books, medicines, operations, running and exercise machines all __14__ a lot of money. So in the United States, losing weight may mean losing __15__ too.1. A. less B. more C. nice D. fast 2. A. For B. So C. Or D. And 3. A. good B. useful C. hard D. easy 4. A. why B. what C. how D. when 5. A. high B. short C. thin D. fat 6. A. talk B. say C. speak D. tell 7. A. dearer B. harder C. shorter D. easier 8. A. taken B. given C. written D. copied 9. A. cheap B. expensive C. easy D. safe10. A. pay B. cost C. take D. have 11. A. making B. taking C. playing D. using 12. A. Before B. In C. After D. At13. A. sorry B. angry C. sad D. glad 14. A. need B. have C. use D. get 15. A. health B. time C. food D. money名師點評這篇文章講的是美國有三分之一的人正在努力減肥，他們想盡了一切辦法去減輕體重，同時也令他們耗費了不少的金錢。15. B。被動語態(tài),表示“學(xué)校不教的書”。reason和for搭配，表示“……的原因”。上述的這些人都很成功。work out意思是“解出”。certain這里指“某一個，固定的”。actually easy 表示“真的很簡單”。9. B。8. D。7. D。6. C。5. D。4. B。3. A。make a living意思是“謀生”。they指上句中的many people。而對于教師而言，不僅要教學(xué)生文化知識，更應(yīng)教會他們?nèi)绾螌W(xué)習(xí)，正所謂“授之以魚，不如授之以漁”。t learn many things from school. But they were all so 12 that they invented so many things for mankind.The 13 for their success is that they knew how to study. They read books that were not 14 at school. They worked hard all their lives, wasting not a single moment. They would ask many questions as they read and they did thousands of 15 .1. A. Students B. They C. We D. People 2. A. make B. do C. have D. get3. A. education B. degree C. lesson D. task4. A. teaches B. knows C. learns D. practises5. A. manage B. expect C. fail D. want6. A. study B. play C. think D. work7. A. From B. in C. within D. outside8. A. heart B. students C. us D. oneself9. A. not B. actually C. seldom D. known. real B. true C. certain D. great11. A. setting B. working C. making D. doing12. A. famous B. popular C. successful D. modest13. A. experiment B. reason C. result D. way14. A. kept B. showed C. expressed D. taught15. A. duties B. jobs C. experiments D. records名師點評本文講述了自主學(xué)習(xí)的重要性。群力中學(xué)2015年初三中考完形填空練習(xí)1 Many people go to school for an education. 1 learn languages, history, geography, physics, chemistry and maths. Others go to school to learn a skill so that they can 2 a living. School 3 is very important and useful. Yet no one can learn everything from school. A teacher, no matter how much he 4 , can not teach his students everything they 5 to know. The teacher39。s job is to show his students how to read and how to 6 . So much more is to be learned 7 school by the students themselves.It is always more important to know how to study by 8 than to memorize(熟記)some facts or formula(公式). It is 9 quite easy to learn a 10 fact in history or a formula in mathematics. But it is very difficult to use a formula in 11 out a maths problem. Great scientists, such as Einstein, Newton and Galileo, didn39。也就是說對于學(xué)生而言應(yīng)該學(xué)會如何學(xué)習(xí)才是更重要的。答案解析1. B。2. A。這里表示學(xué)一門技術(shù)來謀生。school education 意為“學(xué)校教育”。意思是“不管他懂多少”。表示學(xué)生想知道的東西 。老師不僅教學(xué)生文化知識，更應(yīng)該教會學(xué)生如何思考。指應(yīng)該更多的從校外獲取知識。study by oneself自學(xué)。actually副詞，“事實上”。10. C。11. B。12. C。13. B。14. D。意思是他們獲取了很多課外知識。這些科學(xué)家都做了很多實驗。答案簡析1. A。2. B。所以選so表示因果關(guān)系。減肥令人們不得不做很多令人痛苦的事，故是一項艱苦的工作。下文講的是人們減肥的原因，所以選why?，F(xiàn)在很多人都認(rèn)為想要讓自己看上去漂亮就得瘦，正是這種觀點促使很多人要減肥。這四個詞當(dāng)中只有say 可以直接加說話內(nèi)容。人們都希望減肥能夠既快又簡單。因為很多人都想減肥，所以就有人寫這方面的書籍來吸引減肥者。根據(jù)下文得知減肥有時是一件很昂貴的事。 在表示花錢的幾個動詞中，只有pay 和 spend 的主語為人，這里沒有 spend, 故選pay。 take exercise意思是“鍛煉”。 13. D。14. A