最新中考英语首字母填空及答案.doc

英语首字母填空1.While travelling in Russia, Ed Jackson ran short of money. So he wrote t his brother, asking for 500. “Send the m by telegram to the bank here,” he wrote. After a week Ed began v the bank. He s his passport to the bank clerk(职员). “Nothing has come for you, Mr. Jackson,” he was told.This went o for three weeks, and Mr. Jackson got very w . He then phoned his brother, asking w the money was. The brother said it had been sent three weeks b . That evening Ed Jackson was arrested(被捕) for failing to p his hotel bill. He tried to tell the police what his problem was, but no one would believe him. At last he was s to the police station for fifteen days.2.Once there was a king. He liked to write s . He thought his stories were good, so he liked to show them to his people. As his people were afraid to criticize(批评) the kings stories, they all said that his stories were very good. One day, the king showed some of his best stories to a famous writer. He wanted the writer to praise(表扬) those stories. But the writer said his stories were so b that he should throw them into the fire. The king got very angry w _ him and sent him to prison(监狱). After s time the king had pity on the writer and set him free. When the writer returned from prison, the king ordered him to come to his palace. Again he showed him some of his new stories and asked him what he thought of them. After r them, the writer at once turned to the soldier and said, “Take me back to prison, please.”3.Last May I stayed in Santo Lusa for a week. That was my f trip there. One morning I s out to visit a famous museum, but I didnt know w way to go, so I stopped a strange and asked, “ Excuse me, does this street lead(通向) to the Grand Museum?”“Yes,” he answered. “Go along this street and turn left and turn left at the second crossing. You cant m it.”So I w two blocks(街区) and turned to my left, but the museum w there. Then I asked a second stranger. He said, “Go along this street and turn left at the second crossing.” But a I couldnt find the museum. I asked a third stranger and he said the same thing.This time I found the Grand Museum. Just then s walked up and said. “Excuse me, wheres the nearest b ?” I answered q , “Go along this street and turn left at the second crossing!”4.Often, doctors tell some people to go on diets(节食). The doctors hope the diets will make the people feel b . They hope the diets will make the people healthy.Alana was on a diet, but she didnt like it at all. She was not a to eat her favourite food by the doctor. While her brother Frank ate chocolate, she had to eat an apple. Alana was on the diet for two months. Her doctor was pleased with her. “You have been very good,” he said. “You can eat some of the foods you like best. But only a little. Dont eat too many sweets. Dont eat too much ice cream. If you do, you will get a lot of weight a .”Then the doctor put Frank on a diet. It was a different kind of diet. “You c eat chicken or eggs. Frank,” said the doctor. “These foods will make you in trouble.”“How long will I have to be on the diet?” asked Frank.“A long time,” said the doctor. “Maybe for the r of your life.”“But I really like chicken,” said Frank. “You said it is one of the best meats to eat.”“It is a very good food for most people,” said the doctor. “But when you eat it, it makes you sick. It is not a good food for you.”“Youre right,” said Frank. “Well, Ill eat more cake i .”5.At different times in a mans life his food has different effects(影响) on his body. Among children f is quickly changed to the power(力量) to run and play games. Most of a young mans food is spent on growing t ; we grow upwards only d the first twenty years of our l , not later. Working men get their strong bodies from their food; and if they work h , they do not get fat. Office workers eat well and s _ down a lot, and may begin to grow fat when still quite young. Many older p try to work much and walk often. Perhaps the most difficult time is when a man r sixty years of age. His body and mind b restful, without much work or interest. That is when food changes quickly to f .6.Dear Li Ying,Thank you very much f your letter and the beautiful p .How time flies! It is n the end of the term. We are now b preparing for the exams. I h I can do well and go on to study at Guang Ming Middle School-o_ of the best schools in our city.But unluckily our English teacher, Miss Song, was b hurt last Sunday. She cant g us lessons b she is still in hospital. But dont w about our studies! Another teacher has taken her place.With best wishes! Yours,Zhou Yun7.Stop reading for a minute and think about what you see when you look up in the sky on a clear night. You may see many stars. Long long ago, farmers w some stars to know when to plant their crops. Travellers did s to find their ways in the dark. Today stars are s important to some people. Scientists found out that most stars are very big. In fact some stars are so far away from us that it would take m of light-years to get to them even by spaceship.A thing we know today about stars is that some are made up of hot gases. The gases are so hot that they send out light. If you o look up at a star carefully at night, you may find it twinkle sometimes. As you may understand, light from a star must shine t the air before you can see the star. Air is always moving, it makes light from the star m . When the light moves, it makes the star twinkle. Stars also have different c . To our surprise, the cool stars are red and the hottest o are blue white.8.Heres a story about Mings life on the waters. Ming has lived all his life on a wide r in China. His home is a large house-boat with a roof, one of hundreds that move up and down. In about six years he has not once been on l , but he is never lonely. He is a strong swimmer. In fact, he could swim before he could walk. When he wants to play with his f , he just swims across to their boats or asks them to v him.Mings father is a fisherman but he never u a line or a net. Great black birds called cormorants do the fishing for him. Rings have been put around the birds n so that they cant eat the fish they catch. They have been taught to b the fish to people. And then people reward them with a fine big fish as soon as their work is f . Ming loves watching the cormorants, but better still he likes going s with his mother. The shops, of course, are boats very like his o .9.All fruits have a bright colour when they are ripe(成熟), but they grow on green o _ dark brown trees. Why? Perhaps you do not know the reason. Here is the a : The tree wants birds and animals to see its fruit c . The fruit has seeds(种子) i . There will be no y trees if the seed is not carried away and put into the ground somewhere else. Birds and animals eat the flesh(果肉) of the fruit w they see its bright colour and they drop the seeds here and there. For example, the orange tree grows the s flesh of its fruit and gives it a bright colour so that some animals m eat it and carry away the seeds.10.What do you know about the sea? We know that it l very beautiful when the sun is shining on it. We a know that it can be very rough when there is a strong wind. What other t do you know about it?The first thing to remember is that the sea is very big. When you look at the m of the world you will find there is more sea than land. The sea covers three q of the world. Some parts of the sea are shallow(浅的). But in some places the sea is very deep. The h mountain in the world is about 9 kilometers high. But the deepest place of the sea is n 11 kilometers deep.The sea can be very cold. At the top, the w may be warm. But if you go down, it b colder and colder. In most parts of the sea, there are l of fishes and plants. Some live near the top of the sea. O live deep down.You know that the sea is salty. If you swim in the sea, you can taste the salt. Some parts of the sea are more salty than other places. For example, the Dead Sea is so salty that swimmers cant sink in it! And fish cant live in it, either. What a s sea!11.We can find many wonderful things around us. For example, some kinds of whale with n _ teeth is so huge in size, but they live on very small things. Indeed it is i _ for this kind of whale to eat a big fish. Instead of teeth, its mouth h a kind net made of whalebone(鲸须). The water of the sea where the whale lives is full of very small things, both animals and vegetables. They are so small that men can hardly see t . As the whale m along, it fills its mouth with seawater, which passes t the net of whalebone, leaving the small living things behind. Of course, a whale eats huge amounts of this food. But s it is very wonderful that this kind of large whale should be able to live on s small things and should be unable to eat larger things.12.A young man was going to spend his holiday in a mountain village. That night he s at a small hotel near the railway station. B going to bed, he went to the owner of the hotel and said, “Excuse me, sir. Will you please w me up at a quarter to five tomorrow morning? Ill take the five oclock t .”“Oh, sorry,” the owner said i a hurry, “Im afraid I cant. I wont be able to get up s early.”They young man was about to return to his r when he stopped and asked, “Have you got an alarm-clock? M it can help me.”“Yes, here you are, young man.”The young man thanked the owner happily. But when he looked at the alarm-clock closely, it seemed there was something w with it.“Will it ring o time?” he asked.“Sure! You just give it a good shake at a quarter to five. And it will ring.”13.“I dont want to move!” Fred said to his father. “I like living here in New York City. And I l to play in the streets. My Friends are h . I want to stay!”“We have to m , Fred,” Mr. Sparks said. “I have a n job in the Islands. Why d you wait until you see them? Maybe you will like living t .”“Never!” was Freds r .A week later l , the Sparks family left the city by plane. They f over land for hours. In San Francisco they took a big plane. This time they flew over water.At l they saw land. “There is Hawaii,” Mr. Sparks said. “And there is the island we are to live i . But we will visit the other islands, too. A of them are beautiful.”“I dont care w they are like,” said Fred. “I wish I could go b to New York City right now!”14.If I have a magic-stick, Ill make President Bush s the war on Iraq. I dont think its a r war, because America n care about UN, nor other countries complaining, and started the war all by itself! From the news, we all know c , that a lot of citizens of Iraq died or hurt seriously. I feel very sorry to see that. If I can stop e war in the world with my magic-stick, I believe the whole earth will be a paradise (乐园) for everyone else.If I have a magic-stick, I will build a new school building for all my s . As the building is built by itself and itll finish in one night, we dont need to move to other schools, and we dont need to spend any time or money on it. Itll be very quiet and w any pollution. Itll have the greatest facilities (设施) in it.If I have a magic-stick, I will design a new kind of uniform for all the students. In s , when its very hot, the uniform will spray some small drops of cool water on your legs and arms. In winter, itll get t with the temperature. You even dont have to wear sweaters, only this uniform can make you feel that the s is here right now!15.Many people who work in London p to live outside it, and to go to their offices, factories or schools every day by train or car, even though this m they have to get up e in the morning and reach home l in the evening.One advantage of living outside London is that houses are c . Even a small flat in London without garden costs a lot of m . With the same money, one can get a small house in the c with a gardened ones o .Some people, however, take no i in country things; for them h lies in the town, with its c and theaters, beautiful shops and busy streets, dancing-halls and restaurants.Such people would feel that their life was not worth living if they had to live o London. An occasional walk in one of the parks and a fortnights visit to the s every summer is all the content (内容) they want; the rest they are quite prepared to leave those who are glad to get away from London every night.16.Yesterday morning, Mike got up early. After breakfast, he went to school. When he p by a house by the roadside, he saw a cloud of s coming out of the window.“Oh, there must be something on f .” he thought. “The house is in d .” Then he ran away as fast as he could. He wanted to fetch (取来) some w to put out the fire.After a short time, he came back w a bucket (桶) of water. Without hesitation (犹豫), he poured the water into the w .The smoke was gone. To his s , an old man looked out of the window with a smoke pipe (烟斗) in his hand. He was w all over. He shouted a , “What are you doing, boy!”17.Now standing in front of you is an optimistic (乐观的) and confident girl, but no more than half a year a , things were quite the opposite. I was recommended for admission to Fudan University, so my parents sent me to s with undergraduates. I really had a hard time fitting in. Since it was the first time for me to live in a dormitory, and all the students a me are two or three years older. W of all, I couldnt get used to the food there. I kept complaining to my father on the phone, hoping to get some comfort. To my surprise, he said to me: “Stop complaining, my dear. You are so lucky. You dont have to take part in the college entrance examination, so you can manage your time f . The difficulties you have now will make you braver. Just remember: gratitude is the right attitude every day.” After my father told me the last few words, I realized how I should lead my life. That is to take a grateful attitude towards my family, my friends, the people who helped me, and even the d I had. I should thank my family for taking care of me, and always being there to support me. I should t my friends for sharing good times and bad with me. I should never miss a chance to smile and say “Thank you.” to others. I should also thank the difficulties I have, because by overcoming them, I will i a lot.18.“If you want to see a thing well, reach out and touch it!”That may s a strange thing to say so. But touching things can help you to see them better.Your e can tell you that a glass ball is round. But by h it in your hands, you can f how smooth and cool the ball is. You can feel how heavy the glass is.When you feel all these about the ball, you r see it.With your skin (皮肤), you can feel b . For e , your fingers can tell the difference b two coins in your pocket. You can feel a little drop of water on the back of your hand, too.You can even feel sounds against your skin. Have you ever wanted to know why some people like very loud music? They m like to feel the sounds of music.If you want to see better, reach out and touch. Then you will really s !19.Japan is m up of islands that lie off the coast of Asia. People c to live in Japan from the nearby countries of China and Korea. From these o countries, the Japanese borrowed ideas, i and habits.F many years, the Japanese built buildings like those in China. They d like the Chinese. From China came their way of w and their habit of drinking tea.20.Before you u your new microwave oven (微波炉), read the instructions c . Each oven has its own control panel (控制板), but most microwave ovens operate in a similar way. Look at the control panel shown here, it shows the time at the top of the panel. Under the time are the different functions. You can Press Defrost, Cook, Clock or Power. You can also w food by pressing Reheat Times.Under the functions are the numbers. These numbers are shown as on a calculator, from zero t nine. You can p the numbers to set the cooking time in seconds or m . Under the numbers are Start and Clear.21.The computer is a m that works very fast. It can add numbers much faster than a p can. It can remember better than a person. It can do many other things. In school a computer can do maths. It can help boys and girls read, w , and spell. It can r the names of all the students in the school.Computers