初中英语短文填空专练

1、1in the home a dad is very important. he is the person who provides us _1 money to feed and clothes on . he can help make your bedroom, mend your radio, m 2 a cage 软;笼）for your birds, r 3 your bicycle and help you with your math h. a dad can be very happy for taking you in the car to and from partie

2、s, music lessons, and dancing lessons. he is the one who complains about the time you s 5 talking on the p 6, as he has to p 7 the bills. dad is someonewho will support you in an argument, if he b 8 you to be right. he is someone who reads your school r 9 card, and treats奖励）you if it is good. a dad

3、likes to come into a nice happy home in the evening, and sit in his chair with a n 10.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 2about 3 years ago, i felt very lonely. i didnt like my classmates , my parents or anyone else.my classmates didnt want to talk _1 me and my parents werealways saying that other kids

4、were better than me. i thought i was the 2_ unluckyperson in the world.one day i had a fight with one of my classmates. i was so angry 3_ i hit himin his face. just at that moment, a boy stood up and 4 the fight. he was themonitor of our class.after that, he often helped me and we became good _5. wh

5、enever i got angry or sad, he would help 6_ to cool down. my life began to change becauseof the boy, my best friend. as _7 goes by, i have become happier with people andthings. and it 8 that people around me have changed , too. my parents dontshout at me 9 more and my classmates become friendly to m

6、e.but now i cant often see my best friend because he is seriously 10_ and stayingin hospital. how i miss the days when we were together! i hope he will be all right and come back to school soon.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 177.withto 78.most 79.that 80.stopped 81.friends82.me83.time83.seems 85.any

7、86.川sick3if you live in america, the law（法律）1 you cant have a full-time job until youre 16 years old. 2 the age of 14 or 15, you can work part-time after school or on weekends. does all that mean that if you re 3 than 14, you cant earn （赚）your own money? of course not! kids between the ages of 10 an

8、d 13 can earn money by doing 4 of things.lean, 13, makes money by knitting （织）dog sweaters and 5 them to her neighbors. riesa said she had started taking art classes and showing her work to people. people have asked her to draw pictures, and 6 will pay her for them.earning is learning. by working to

9、 earn your own money, you are learning the skills you will need to succeed in 7 . some people think that 8 for money is much easier than earning. however, when you make your own money, you don t have to depend on anyone 9. the five dollars that you earn will probably makeyou feel a lot better in you

10、r hands 10 the twenty dollars you ask for.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 4do you have a mobile phone （手机）？ do youtext messages 短信）to yourfriends and family?text messages or texting is becoming very 2 . but scientists have found out that texting can give us problems with our 3 . be careful. too much

11、texting” can cause swelling in our thumbs（拇指月中胀）.scientists call this 4 rsi （重复性 疲劳伤害）.doctor wilson, who treats （治疗）many sick people with rsi, 5 if we are not spending more than 10-15 minutes each time texting，we wont have the problem in the future.as mobile phones develop, they are getting 6 with

12、buttons closer together, which makes it more difficult for you to read and write the text messages. 7 more and more people find themselves with rsi. among them, most are teenages, as they 8 know the dangers of spending so much time on mobile phones.now you know why you often have a handache 9 having

13、 text messages for a long time, dont you? w川 you stop yourselves 10texting“ too much? if so,youll enjoy a healthier and happier life.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. birds live in trees. some other animals live in trees. but do you know some frogs （蛙）live in trees, too?the tree frog is 1 to find. this

14、 frog can 2 colors. on green leaves, it stays green. on a brown branch, it turns 3 . some tree frogs can change from green to gold 4 blue.tree frogs 5 long legs and wide feet. they have sticky toe pads砧性脚趾）. these sticky toe pads keep the tree frogs 6 falling.tree frogs have different colors and mar

15、kings （be 点）on their bodies. their eyes are 7 , too. some have green eyes, some gray. some 8 eyes are gold, and some are bright red.the sound they 9 in spring and summer are also different. but in winter they 10 make any sound. do you know the reason?1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 6sally is a stuent

16、._l lives far from her school, so she often 2 a bus to school. she goes to school at 6:30 every morning. she 3 want to be late for school.the first class 4 at 8 and there are four classes 5 the morning and two in the 6. she doesrit go home 7 lunch. she 8 lunch at school.sally has chinese, english ,

17、math and some _9_ subjects at school. she studies hard.in the evening, she usually 10 her homework. she only watches tv on saturday. she goes to bed early.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 7i go to j at ten o clock every evening. i work until 3:00 o clock 2 night.3 work, i take a 4 and then go to 5 all

18、-night restaurant to have some food. then i take the number 216 bus 6 . i go to 7 at five in the morning and stay in bed until two in the 8 . i only work 9 days a week. 10 friday, saturday and sunday, im free at home.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 8four girls went to school every day 1 taxi.one day

19、one of the girls said, there s a test（w试）this mornin. let s go to school 2. then we can miss the tes t.what can we say to the 3 ?” one of the girls said, hell be angry. we ll need a good reason. the girl 4 for several minutes, then one of them said, let s _5 him that our taxi had a flat tyre.胎）”“tha

20、ts a good idea. the other girl said, well tell him that. they 6 to school an hour later. the test was already finished.“ 7 are you late? the teacher asked. you missed the test.our taxi had a flat tyre. one of the girls said.the teacher thought for a moment, then he said, sit down, one of you in each

21、 corner of the room. the four girls _8_ that.then the teacher said, write on a piece of paper the 9 to this question:_10 tyre was flat?1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 9theres a piece of good news for the children in the countryside. we may still _j the girl with big eyes. her big eyes are 2 us her dr

22、eam i wish to go to 3!in china, there are still lots of girls and boys 4 her. they want to go to school, but their 5 are too poor. if the family has two or three children, it is harder to _6 the money for education of all the children. so the parents often ask 7 to stay at home and ask boys to go to

23、 school.now they 8 worry about the money. beginning from 2006, children can go to school for freein some poor places. they doh t have to pay for books or other things. some of them can even get money from the government（府）to make their life 9 . soon, all the children in the countryside are very happ

24、y with the news. it is 10 great.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 10tea is j in the world, but more than three hundred years ago most of the people in europe didnt know _2_ about tea.once an english doctor came 3 from china for christmas holiday. he gave his mother some tea 4 a present. she told her fr

25、iends 5 the present and asked them to come to a tea party. when her friends came, the old woman 6 out some tea- leaves and asked them to eat. of course, 7 liked the tea leaves.just at that time the docor came in. he looked at the table and aske dmother, what did you do _8_ the tea?boiled it as you s

26、aid.”and what did you do with the water?”poured it away, of course: 9 the old woman.now you may throw away the leaves, 10 . said the doctor.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11mike is very j at math. mary, his sister, is not good at it. mike often helps her 2 her math. one night mike and mary 3 out the

27、ir exercise-books and began 4 their lessons. soon mike finished his homework, but his sister 5 . she couldnt work out （解决）the last problem. let me 6 you. said mike. no, please 7. i ll do it 8.” said mary. she thought and thought, and 9 an hour she worked it out. she 10 very tired, but very happy.1.

28、2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 12bill gates was j on oct. 28th, 1955. he grew up in seattle, washington. he was a very 2 boy. his favorite subjects at school were science and math. 3 he was 13 years old, bill started to play with computers. at that time, computers 4 very large machines. once he was ver

29、y interested 5 a very old computer. he and some of his friends 6 lots of time doing unusual things with it. in the end, they worked out a software program（软件程序）with the old machine. bill 7 it for 4200 dollars when he was only 17.in 1973, bill 8 to harvard university. in this third year, he left harv

30、ard to work for a company called microsoft. bill began his company in 1975 9 his friend paul allen. they thougth the computer would come into every office and every home soon. so they began developing the software for personal computers. they improved（改进）the software to 10 it easier for people to us

31、e computers.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 13one monday morning at eight oclock, mathew was j down the street. suddenly he heard two shots （枪声）.they 2 from the bank. mathew ran to the 3 and saw a man run 4 . the man was short and heavy 5 blonde hair. he had a bag and a gun in his hands.6 mathew coul

32、d do something, theman had run into the street and on a bus.that afternoon mathew 8 to the movies. he saw the 9 in the hall. he 10 the police at once. the policemen arrived in less than five minutes.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 14experts say that students usually need eight to ten hours sleep at n

33、ight, but most chinese students do not get j sleep. some parents are glad to see their _2 study late. they will think their children work very 3 . but not all parents are _4 about this. once a mother told us that every morning her 10-year-old son put up one finger with his eyes still 5 , begging for

34、 one 6 minute to sleep. 7 thousands of students early birds in china, he has to get up before 6 every morning.a report 8 thatwithout a goodnight ssleep, students seem tobe weakerthanthey should be.manystudents havefallen9duringclass at onetime.somewatch tv or 10 computer games late into the night.1.

35、 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.15the weekend is usually a time of rest. 1 today s chinese teenagers can hardly rest during the weekends. according to a survey, 24% of the junior students in beijing have classes at the weekend. over 40% of the junior 3 have less 2 eight hours each night because of study

36、.ji ping, a junior student in guangzhou, 3 to get up at 6:30 am on saturday. then she has a whole day of classes. on sunday she gets to extra classes _4 math and english. but she doesnt complain. she says that 5 her classmates work hard on sunday.liu yang is from dalian. as a junior 2 student, his w

37、eekends are less busy. but he also spends saturday in school. on sunday, after 6 homework, he plays basketball. he feels happy 7 he still has time to do the things he likes.a few students are quite bit luckier. yang qing, a junior 3 student from zibo, shandong, is 8of them. during the weekends, she

38、usually gets up at 8:00. thenshe 9 some time doing homework. after that she is free to go shopping or watch tv. dont push yourself too much. learning well at school is 10 , she said. and is is a top student.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 16now lots of parents will buy everything that their children

39、want to have. if they go on with the habit, their children wont know the money 1 from hard work.some parents like to 2 birthday parties for their children. if they keep on doing this, their children will think 3 necessary for them to enjoy birthday parties every year. year after year, maybe they wil

40、l forget their 4 birthdays and only remember their own. it is against traditional habits.many parents dont let the children do housework. they think children have only 5 to do. they should study hard and do 6 in their lessons. if parents go on doing this, the children will only learn to open their m

41、ouths to be fed and stretch out（伸出）their7 to be dressed every day. when the children grow up, they willbe able to do 8 , and they wont even find a job. parents should teach the children 9_ to do housework becauseit can help them start good habits of working 10 themselves.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 1

42、0. 17dear mum,i don think you understood my life. you think i should be 1 all the time. i know you want me to 2 a good job when i grow up, but i would like to have a wonderful 3 , too. you never think about fun things for me to do like music, sports. two days ago, when i was watching a football game

43、 4 tv, you asked me to stop and do my homework. 5 finishing my homework, still i wasn 6 tot read my football magazines. you said i had to go to bed 7 . that was bad. especially yesterday was the 8 day. i bought some cds, and put them in my bag so that you wouldn t see them. i told you i had to do my

44、 homework first. i know it was 9 to lie to you. but after you knew the truth you told dad. mum, i didn t quite like what you did to me! i really love you, mum, but i 10 you could give me some freedom.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 18april fools day is on april 1st. people can play 1on otherson this

45、special2. if you succeed, you usually laugh and say april fool!” theperson who hasbeen fooled by you 3 , too, and he will never be angrywith you.mother s day is on the second sunday of may. it s aday to4mothers. onthat day mothers usually receive flowers and cards from their children. fathers and ch

46、ildren do the housework so that mothers can have a 5 .easter day falls on the first sunday after the full moon which is on or after march 21 st. its also called easter sunday. it is said that on that day jesuschrist comes back to 6 . many people go to church and children often get 7 such as toy rabb

47、its.thanksgiving day is on the fourth thursday in november. it s a day when people give thanks for the good things in life. usually families all get 8 and have a big dinner.christmas day comes on 9 25th. its the most important festival in a year. the beautiful things can be 10 everywhere. people exc

48、hange gifts, send christmas cards and visit friends.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 19i have many friends, and they have 1 favorite subjects. john s favorite subject is computer because he thinks computer can 2 him a lot in his study. he is a computer 3 . he likes playing computer 4 very much, and he is good at playing it. jack likes art 5 because he