武汉历年初三元调英语真题分类汇编 6--阅读理解填词 【2019-2020 学年度武汉市部分学校九年级元月调研测试】 六、阅读理解填词（共 10 小题，每小题 1 分，满分 10 分） Frank Woolworth was born from a poor family. He did not want to be a farmer. So he took a b 76 course then went to work as a salesman in a large city. Woolworth realized he had a n 77 skill for showing goods to attract people’s interest, but he soon learned something more valuable. One day his boss told him to sell some odds and ends ( 小商品 ) . Frank put all these things on one table with a s 78 which said “FIVE CENTS EACH”.People fought and p 79 to buy the things and the table was soon cleared. Soon afterwards, Woolworth o 80 his first store, selling goods at five and ten cents. But he had a 81 lesson to learn before he became successful. That is, if you want to make money by selling low-price goods, you have to buy large amount of them d 82 from the factories. Once, Woolworth went to Germany and placed an order for knives. The factory had to keep busy for a whole year to m 83 his needs. In this way, the price of the knives was cut down by half. Several years later, Woolworth had over 1000 stores in the US and Canada. He made many millions and his name became f 84 throughout the world. He always bought and sold goods according to strict r 85 , of which the most important was:“ THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT.” 【2018-2019 学年度武汉市部分学校九年级元月调研测试】 六、阅读理解填词（共 10 小题，每小题 1 分，满分 10 分） Many years ago Mrs. Hill moved back to Australia and settled down in a small town near a big farm. On a hot Saturday afternoon when she did all the things around the house, Mrs. Hill went to her small shop. That was her small b 76 . She opened the only window of the shop and looked outside. She p 77 to see the green farm in front. There were many cows, horses and small a 78 on the farm. At this time she saw a kangaroo coming towards her and stopped under her window. It was interesting to see that it was wearing an old jacket. It looked so c 79 . Mrs Hill felt it strange that the kangaroo came to her shop. It was c 80 to be hungry! Then Mrs. Hill went to f 81 some bread and water and gave them to it. The kangaroo soon had them all. Then it became happy and jumped away. Suddenly something dropped on the grass from the jacket pocket. It was a w 82 ! She picked it up, opened it and found there was ＄300 and a photo in it. That was a man’s photo with his name “Bob” on it. Bob? She looked more carefully and r 83 she had a brother many years ago. His name was also Bob. “Is this man my I 84 brother?” She thought. She took the photo with her and began to look for the man. She asked many people in the town for information, but there was no r 85 . Then she came to the farm and asked one farmer. To her surprise, she found the man was her brother Bob. They hugged each other and could not say a word. 【2017-2018 学年度武汉市部分学校九年级元月调研测试】 六、阅读理解填词（共 10 小题，每小题 1 分，满分 10 分） One day an old man was walking along the beach. It was low tide（潮水）, and there were thousands of stranded starfish on the sand. They were c 76 in by the water and then left b 77 The man began walking very carefully so as not to s 78 on any of the beautiful living things. Since the animals still seemed to be a 79 , he considered picking some of them up and putting them back in the water, where they could come back to their lives. The man knew the starfish would die if left on the beach’s d 80 sand but he reasoned that he could not p 81 help them all, so he c 82 to do nothing and continued walking. Soon afterward, the man came upon a small child on the beach who was b 83 throwing one starfish after anther back into the sea. The old man stopped and asked the child, ”What are you doing ? ” ”I‟m saving the starfish, ” the child replied. “Why do you w 84 your time ?.....There are so many you can‟t save them all, so what does it matter?” argued the man. Without hesitation （犹豫），the child picked up another starfish and threw the starfish back into the water…… “It m 85 to this one,” the child explained. 武汉历年初三元调英语真题分类汇编 6--阅读理解填词 参考答案 【2020】 76. business 77. natural 78. sign 79. pushed 80. opened/owned 81. another 82. directly 83. meet 84. famous 85.rules 77. preferred 78. animals 79. cool /cute 80. certain 【2019】 76. business 81. fetch 82 wallet 83. remembered 84. lost 85. result 76. carried 77. behind 78. step 79. alive 80. dry 81. possibly 82. chose 83. busy 84. waste 85. matter 【2018】