初三英语首字母填空

初三英语首字母填空

(2010-03-30 18:24:44) 近几年,各省市中考经常采用首字母填空的题型，要求考生在理解短文的基础上正确拼写，词语的形式要合理，符合语法规范。常要注意的是几点：1. 通读短文，从整体理解。2. 抓重要信息，前后照应猜词。3. 合理答题，讲准确细致。 4. 常做练习，总结得与失。以下十篇英语首字母填空供初三同学练习，欢迎大家提问与争鸣。

1、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

The continent（洲）Antarctica is the most southern area of land on the Earth and is mostly covered with ice. People have never wanted to l 67 there because of its coldest temperature. But now scientists from all over the w 68 come to study the ice to learn more about the Earth’s history.

Some scientists live on Antarctica for part of the y 69 . But they don’t usually stay there for more than six months b 70 there are six months of light and six months of darkness.

Antarctica usually has a good deal of f 71 weather without any wind at all. The strong winds are usually only in some parts of it. It is also i 72 to learn that it isn’t very wet there. There is very l 73 snow or rain. It snows on the ice in winter, but at other times Antarctica is d 74 , just like the Sahara Desert.

In winter the sea around Antarctica freezes (结冰) for t 75 of kilometres. But

scientists tell us that the earth is getting w 76 . So in the future, there may be less ice in the Antarctic sea. When that happens, our weather will never be the same again.

参考答案：67. live 68. world 69. year 70. because 71. fine 72. interesting 73. little 74. dry 75. thousands 76. warmer

2、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries. In fact, an English dictionary you u 72 today wasn’t made until the Qing Dynasty. Three men did most of the important e 73 work on dictionary. They spent nearly all their l 74 trying to collect words for their dictionary. For them, it was a wonderful journey. The largest dictionary in the world is Oxford English Dictionary. The i 75 for this dictionary came from an important meeting

in Britain in 1857. Twenty-two years later, Oxford University asked James Murray to b 76 the editor of its new dictionary.

Murray had never been to college. At the age of fourteen, he left his village school in Scotland and taught h 77 while working in a bank. Later he became a great teacher. After Oxford gave him the job, Murray had a small house b 78 in his garden to do the work. Every morning, Murray got out of bed at five o’clock and w 79 in the small house several hours before breakfast. Often he would work into the night. Murray h 80 to finish the new dictionary in ten years. But after five years, he was still adding words for the letter “A”! He worked on the

dictionary u 81 he was very old. Forty-four years later, in 1928, other editors finished the dictionary.

参考答案：72. use 73. early 74. lives 75. idea 76. be/become 77. himself 78. built 79. worked 80. hoped 81. until

3、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

Do you enjoy climbing mountains? I’d like to tell you a true story about John and Peter. They were b 67 mountaineers(登山者). As John was experienced, he was always asking Peter to copy his example. “Would you like to stand on the t 68 of the world, Peter?” “Of course. It has already b 69 my dream,” Peter answered.

On a sunny morning, the two men started for the top of Mount Qomolangma. After they climbed over one of the most d 70 slopes(斜坡), they found a man lying in the snow. “He’s going to d 71 ,” Peter looked at John and said, as if he would help the man. “ Leave him by himself and just follow me! But if you bring the burden(累赘)with you, I’m a 72 you will lose your life.” John warned Peter. Then he turned around and walked forward a 73 . It was too cold. After thinking for a w 74 , Peter made up his mind to help the dying man. He carried the man on his back and made his way forward. Little by little, Peter’s

temperature made the man w 75 . The man came to himself! And soon he could move all by himself. Together they moved side by side.

About two hours later, they kept up with John. To their surprise, they found that John was almost d 76 in the snow. He had been frozen to death.

参考答案：67. both 68. top 69. been/become 70. dangerous 71. die 72. afraid 73.alone/again 74. while 75. warm 76. dead/dying

4、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang completed a spacewalk 43 hours after the launch(发射) of Shenzhou-7. It is a breakthrough(突破) in history in our country’s great space program.

Zhai Zhigang went out of Shenzhou-7 at 4:43 p.m. o 67 September 27, 2008. He waved to us as well as the whole world. All the Chinese felt e 68 at that moment. Many people watched the spacewalk on TV or on the I 69 . They c 70 their hands and cheered. “Shenzhou-7 reports: I’m now outside the spacecraft. I feel well. I am here greeting the Chinese people and people of the whole world,” Zhai Zhigang r 77 to the ground control in China. Then another astronaut Liu Boming handed Zhai Zhigang a Chinese n 72 flag. Zhai Zhigang waved the red flag outside the spaceship. The t 73 astronaut called Jing Haipeng was monitoring the spaceship inside.

After the 20-minute spacewalk, Zhai Zhigang was seen lying back on his seat, chatting with two other astronauts w 74 a smile on his face. “The feeling of spacewalk is great. In the vast space, I am p 75 of our motherland.”

China’s first spacewalk attracts the world’s a 76 . The whole world have known about the spacewalk. China has made rapid progress in the unknown space.

参考答案：67. on 68. excited 69. Internet 70. clapped 71. reported 72. national 73. third 74. with 75. proud 76. attention

5、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

What can you do to keep healthy? Perhaps for children, healthy eating is one of the most important things. Here are some ideas about h 67 to eat healthily.

A good breakfast is very important to children. It’s necessary to have it in the m 68 . But some children often go to school w 69 breakfast, just because they want to sleep a little longer. Remember that a good breakfast will help you study better.

“My dream is that all the Chinese children can get half a kilogram(公斤) of milk a day.” The Chinese Premier(总理) Wen Jiabao said this during his v 70 to a milk farm. Milk is also very important to children’s health. It makes children grow stronger. It’s better for you to d 71 a glass of warm milk before going to bed. That will help you have a good s 72 . Having healthy food is the most important. That means eating lots of different k 73 of food, especially fruits and vegetables. Don’t eat too much chocolate

o 74 ice-cream. Some of you p 75 eating fast food, but in fact it is not good for your health. Try to eat healthy food as much as p 76 . Have healthy eating habits, and you will have a strong body.

参考答案：67. how 68.morning 69.without 70. visit 71. drink 72.sleep 73. kinds 74.or 75.prefer 76.possible

6、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

What is the most popular snack today? Potato chips? Walk i 67 almost any supermarket or corner store in North America and you will see potato chips．North America has the l 68 number of people who love potato chips in the world．Do you know where this very popular snack food c 69 from?

One day, almost 150 years ago, a man in an expensive restaurant in New York State was

c 70 popular food－French fries．However, a customer(顾客) in the restaurant didn’t like the French fries, and c 71 because they were too thick．The cook cut some potatoes into thinner pieces and fried them．A w 72 brought them to the customer．The customer tasted them, and asked to see the boss because he was still not satisfied．The boss went to explain to the customer．

However, the customer said something bad a 73 about the chips again．The

cook became very unhappy because the customer was so r 74 ．He decided to play a trick on the customer．

He cut some potatoes so thin t 75 the customer wouldn’t be able to pick them up with his fork．To the cook’s s 76 , the customer loved the new chips．Soon other customers wanted them, too．From then on, the chips became more and more popular．

参考答案：67．Into 68．largest 69．came/comes 70．cooking 71．Complained 72．waiter/waitress

73．aloud/angrily 74．rude 75．that 76．surprise

7、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

Flu, or influenza, is a common illness that makes you feel very tired and weak, and makes you cough and have a fever. But recently we find a new kind flu c 72 H1N1 influenza A. We find ourselves in the dark about the terrible flu virus. Is it quite d 73 from a common flu? The answer is no, because it seems s 74 to regular human flu with a fever, cough and a headache. The answer is y 75 , because it has caused at least 64 d 76 around the world. And the World Health Organization has confirmed（确诊） about 6,500 cases.

The flu virus first appeared in pigs or swines. WHO says the virus is being spread from human-to-human, not from contact with infected（感染的）pigs. Scientists try to know clearly how it jumped to humans. The steps are aimed at

stopping further spread of the virus.

Pork imports aren’t a 77 from the areas which have swine flu. Though experts said swine flu is not connected with pigs and not spread by e 78 pork.

So far groups of illnesses seem related to Mexican travel. For example, some students in New York fell i 79 from an spring outing in Mexico. Flu viruses can be spread by touching(触摸) your mouth or nose w 80 unwashed hands. Swine flu can be treated, but so many confirmed cases s 81 that we had better take early notice, in case it would be too late.

参考答案： 72. called 73. different 74. similar 75. yes 76. deaths 77. allowed

78. eating 79. ill 80. with 81. show / suggest

8、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

The earth is our home; we must take care of it. This means that k 67 the land, air and water clean is necessary and important. However, pollution is beginning to threaten(威胁)our health, or happiness and our life－－we see it, smell it, taste it and d 68 it.

Men began to p 69 the earth a long time ago. When land was used up or water became dirty, men had to m 70 to another place. At first, there weren’t

so m 71 people then and their wants were fewer. All the dirty things could be absorbed by nature. But now this is no l 72 true. The increase of population and the development of industry have changed that. Men are s 73 polluting his environment.

L 74 , millions of people have realized the danger of pollution. Large n 75 of people are now working hard to protect our environment. Everyone should do their b 76 to make our environment better and better.

参考答案：67. keeping 68. drink 69. pollute 70. move 71. many 72. longer 73. slowly 74. Luckily 75. numbers 76. best

9、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

Advertisements are everywhere! They’re on the radio and TV, in the

newspapers and magazines, and on buses, and b 67 ．They’re on websites and mobile phones．Companies give their products to film stars, pop stars and sports stars to u 68 so that fans will buy them in order to copy the stars．

Advertisements have become so common that they aren’t w 69 any more．We don’t like advertisements．So we try not to see them．We turn o 70 the advertisements on our computers．

We refuse to watch them on TV, or read them in magazines．We no l 71 pay attention to the posters all around us．We don’t copy the stars because we know

maybe they don’t r 72 like the things they advertise．

This means that advertising companies need a new w 73 to sell their products．They can’t make their products “cool” by

advertising．Advertisements aren’t cool, and teenagers won’t buy the things in advertisements j 74 because the advertisements say they are fashionable．The latest way to advertise is not to advertise．

I 75 of using stars, companies are using teenagers．They pay them to tell their friends about new products．Teenagers don’t want to dress like everyone else and buy the things that everyone else has．They want to look d 76 and create their own styles．Teenagers don’t think it’s cool to copy the stars or buy things they’ve seen in advertisements．

参考答案：67．buildings 68．use 69．working 70．off 71．longer 72．Really 73．way 74．just 75．Instead 76．different

10、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

In the USA, children between the ages of 8 and 14 are a powerful group. They make up 60% of Internet users u 72 age18. Just as in America, the number of teen Internet users in China is g 73 bigger, up to 253 million. The number shows a great increase in Internet use in China over the last f 74 years, particularly among teenagers, and China becomes a large m 75 for Internet business.

A new survey r 76 that Chinese teens take an interest in online activities. And spending too much time before a computer screen causes a lot of p 77 for their young life. According to the survey, 42.6% of teens have built their o 78 web blogs and 8% have taken Internet courses. More than half enjoy c 79 online in chat-rooms and 10.6% of teens play Internet games. In the eyes of most parents, what a p 80 that only 6% use the Internet to get information for their learning projects! Also, the survey finds that the teens have different favourite places to use the Internet. For teens in towns, 35% c 81 Internet bars as a main place to go online. For those living in large cities, 76% prefer home computers and 10% Internet bars.

参考答案：72. under 73. growing 74. few 75. market 76. reports 77. problems 78. own 79. chatting 80. pity 81. choose