上海初三中考英语首字母填空专项练习
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Firefighters or firemen play an important role in our daily life. In some places, firefighters use watchtowers to look for smoke and fires, although they get a fire report by telephone. A high tower is still very u 67 for watching and guarding a place. Fire fighters also make it a place for practice. They learn how to p 68 out fires from burning buildings. They try to c 69 up the outside of the tower as fast as possible. They carry water hoses up to the fire. They practise carrying imaginable victims down f 70 high ladders.
There are reasons that firefighters are called for help. Maybe a building or a forest is o 71 fire. A train accident happens and people are t 72 inside. Still, people need to be rescued from floods or an earthquake. Whenever there is an emergency situation, they can be seen f 73 there.
Being a fire fighter needs a lot of t 74 . In the first place, firefighters should know how to educate the community （社区） by visiting schools, community centres and people in their own homes to p 75 fire and accidents from starting. They have to learn how to deal with different dangerous situations. Above all, it?s necessary for firefighters to exercise every day to be h 76 and strong. 二、
Man has a big brain. He can think and s 72 languages. Scientists once thought that man isn?t the same as animals b 73 man can think and learn. They know now that dogs, monkeys and birds can learn, too.
They are beginning to u 74 that men are different from animals because they can speak. Animals can?t speak. They make much n 75 when they are afraid, or unhappy. Apes(猿) can learn some things more quickly than man. One or two of them have learned a few words. But they can not join words to make s 76 . They cannot think l 77 us because they have no language. Language is a wonderful thing. Man has been a 78 to build a modern world because he has language. Every child can speak his own language very w 79 when he is four or five, b 80 no animals learn to speak.
How do children learn it? Scientists don?t really know w 81 happens inside our body when we speak. They only know that man can speak because he has a brain. 三、
Our dog, Rex, used to sit outside our front gate and bark. Every time he wanted to come into the garden he would bark u 72 someone opened the gate. As the neighbours complained of the noise, my husband s 73 weeks training him to press his paw on the latch (门闩) to let himself in. Rex soon became good at o 74 the gate.
H 75 , when I was going out shopping last week, I n 76 him in the garden near the gate. This time he was barking so that someone would let him o 77 ! Since then, he has developed another bad h 78 . As soon as he opens the gate from the outside, he comes i 79 the garden
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and waits until the gate shuts. Then he sits and barks until someone lets him out. After this he immediately lets himself in and begins barking a 80 . Yesterday my husband removed the gate and Rex got so
a 81 that he disappeared. Since then, we have not seen him. 四、
Elizabeth lived with her six children in a small house. One winter, there was a big flood and quite a f 72 houses were washed away, but Elizabeth?s house was high e 73 to escape it.
Elizabeth took in one of the families which had lost everything. She shared her home until the family could build a 74 house. Elizabeth?s friends could not understand w 75 she wanted to give so much when she already had so many children to support.
“Well, ” Elizabeth e 76 to her friends, “at the end of World War I, there was a poor woman in a town in Germany. Her husband had been killed in the war and she had a lot of children, just like m 77 now.”
“The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ?We won?t be a 78 to have much for Christmas. I?m going to get just one p 79 for us all. Now I?ll go and get it.? She came back w 80 a little girl who had no parents. ?Here?s our present, ?she said to her own children.\
The children were more than excited to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl warmly, and she g 81 up as their sister. I was that Christmas present.” 五、
Teenagers are very busy at school now and often forget to think about their diets and sports. The truth is that healthy eating and regular exercise are t 67 ways to keep fit.
D 68 your teenage years, it is important to give your body enough e 69 it needs. Young girls need about 2,200 calories a day. Usually boys need a bit m 70 , many doctors suggest, 2,800 calories for teenage b 71 . 50% of your calories should come from rice, bread, vegetables and fruit. You also need to drink a lot of water, 6 to 8 glasses a day. D 72 enough water will improve your dry skin and give you healthy body.
Physical a 73 , such as playing basketball and swimming, are something that can help to make you look good, feel good and be healthy. Experts (专家) suggest that teenagers spend at l 74 30 minutes exercising a day, five times a week.
After you exercise a bit, your body produces something that makes you feel r 75 and comfortable. It can even help you sleep better at night and let you p 76 more attention when you study. 六、
Years ago in Scotland, the Clark family had a dream. The couple worked and saved, making p___72___ for their nine children and themselves to travel to the USA. It had taken years before they saved enough money and got everything r___73___ for the trip. The whole family was excited about their new life. However, seven days b 74 they left for the USA, the youngest son was bitten（咬）by a dog. The doctor treated the boy,
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b 75 because there was a possibility of rabies（狂犬病）, they would be kept away from others for fourteen days.
The family?s dream could not come t 76 . They would not be able to make the trip to America as they had planned. Watching the ship leave---without the Clark family, the father was quite a 77 with both his son and God for their bad luck.
Five days later, a piece of sad news s__ 78___ throughout Scotland---the strong and powerful ship, Titanic, had gone down, taking h 79 of lives with it. The Clark family was to have been on that ship, but because the son was bitten by a dog, they were left b 80 in Scotland.
When Mr Clark heard the news, he thanked his son for saving the family. He thanked the God for t 81 a sad thing into a good one.
Although we may not always understand, all things happen for a reason. 七、
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．
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答案一： 67.useful 68. put 69. climb 70. from 71.on 72. trapped 73. fighting 74. training 75. prevent 76. healthy
答案二：72. speak 73. because 74. understand 75. noise 76. sentences 77. like 78. able 79. well 80. but 81. what
答案三：72. until 73. spent 74. opening 75. However 76. noticed 77. out 78. habit 79. into 80. again 81. angry
答案四： 72. few 73. enough 74. another 75. why 76. explained 77. me 78. able 79. present 80. with 81. grew
答案五： 67. two 68. During 69. energy 70. more 71.boys 72. Drinking 73. activities 74. least 75. relaxed 76. pay
答案六：72. plans 73. ready 74. before 75. but 76. true 77.angry 78. spread 79. hundreds 80. behind 81. Turning
答案七：67．buildings 68．use 69．working 70．off 71．longer 72．Really 73．way 74．just 75．Instead 76．different
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