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.

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