初中英语短文填空专练

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 (鸟笼) 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 parties, 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 someone who 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 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 didn't like my classmates , my parents or anyone else.My classmates didn't want to talk __1____ me and my parents were always saying that other kids were better than me. I thought I was the ____2_ unlucky person in the world.One day I had a fight with one of my classmates. I was so angry ____3__ I hit him in his face. Just at that moment, a boy stood up and ___4___ the fight. He was the monitor of our class.After that, he often helped me and we became good __5____ . Whenever I got angry or sad, he would help ____6__ to cool down. My life began to change because of the boy, my best friend. As __7___ goes by, I have become happier with people and things. And it ___8____ that people around me have changed , too. My parents don't shout at me ___9___ more and my classmates become friendly to me.But now I can't often see my best friend because he is seriously ___10__ and staying in 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. 10.77.with\to 78.most 79.that 80.stopped 81.friends 82.me 83.time 83.seems 85.any 86.ill\sick3If you live in America, the law(法律) _1__ you can’t have a full-time job until you’re 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 can’t earn (赚) your own money? Of course not! Kids between the ages of 10 and 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 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 make you feel a lot better in your 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 you 1 text messages (短信) to your friends 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 “texting”can cause swelling in our thumbs(拇指肿胀). 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 won’t have the problem in the future.As mobile phones develop, they are getting 6 with 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 text messages for a long time, don’t you? Will you stop yourselves 10 “texting”too much? If so, you’ll enjoy a healthier and happier life.1. 2. 3. 4. 5.6. 7. 8. 9. 10.5Birds 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 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 (粘性脚趾). These sticky toe pads keep the tree frogs 6 falling.Tree frogs have different colors and markings (斑点) 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. 1 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 doesn’t go home 7 lunch. She 8 lunch at school.Sally has Chinese, English , math and some 9 subjects at school. She studieshard.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 1 at ten o’clock every evening. I work until 3:00 o’clock 2 night.3 work, I take a4 and then go to5 all-night restaurant to have some food. Then I take the number 216 bus 6 . I go to7 at five in the morning and stay in bed until two in the8 . I only work9 days a week. 10 Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I’m free at home.1. 2. 3. 4. 5.6. 7. 8. 9. 10.8Four girls went to school every day 1 taxi.One day one of the girls said, “There’s a test(测试) this mornin. Let’s go to school 2 . Then we can miss the test.”“What can we say to the 3 ?” One of the girls said, “He’ll 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. (爆胎)”“That’s a good idea.”The other girl said, “We’ll 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 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. 10.9There’s a piece of good news for the children in the countryside. We may still 1 the girl with big eyes. Her big eyes are 2 us her dream—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 school.Now they 8 worry about the money. Beginning from 2006, children can go to school for freein some poor places. They don’t have to pay for books or other things. Some of them can even get money from the government(政府) to make their life 9 . Soon, all the children in the countryside are very happy with the news. It is 10 great.1. 2. 3. 4. 5.6. 7. 8. 9. 10.10Tea is 1 in the world, but more than three hundred years ago most of the people in Europe didn’t 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 friends 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 asked, “Mother, what did you do 8 the tea?”“I boiled it as you said.”“And what did you do with the water?”“I 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 1 at math. Mary, his sister, is not good at it. Mike often helps her 2 her math. One night Mike and Mary 3 out their exercise-books and began 4 their lessons. Soon Mike finished his homework, but his sister 5 . She couldn’t 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. 2. 3. 4. 5.6. 7. 8. 9. 10.12Bill Gates was 1 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 very 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 Harvard 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 use computers.1. 2. 3. 4. 5.6. 7. 8. 9. 10.13One Monday morning at eight o’clock, Mathew was 1 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 could do something, the man had run into the street and 7 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 night, but most Chinese students do not get 1 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 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 that without a good night’s sleep, students seem to be weaker than they should be. Many students have fallen 9 during class at one time. Some watch TV or 10 computer games late into the night.1. 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.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 doesn’t complain. She says that 5 her classmates work hard on Sunday.Liu Yang is from Dalian. As a Junior 2 student, his weekends are less busy. But healso 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 8 of them. During the weekends, she usually gets up at 8:00. Then she 9 some time doing homework. After that she is free to go shopping or watch TV. “Don’t 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 want to have. If they go on with the habit, their children won’t 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 will forget their 4 birthdays and only remember their own. It is against traditional habits.Many parents don’t 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 mouths to be fed and stretch out(伸出) their 7 to be dressed every day. When the children grow up, they will be able to do 8 , and they won’t even find a job. Parents should teach the children 9 to do housework because it can help them start good habits of working 10 themselves.1. 2. 3. 4. 5.6. 7. 8. 9. 10.17Dear Mum,I don’t 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 4 TV, you asked me to stop and do my homework. 5 finishing my homework, still I wasn’t 6 to 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 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 1 on others on this special 2 . If you succeed, you usually laugh and say “April Fool!”The person who has been fooled by you 3 , too, and he will never be angry with you.Mother’s Day is on the second Sunday of May. It’s a day to 4 mothers. On that day mothers usually receive flowers and cards from their children. Fathers and children 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. It’s also called Easter Sunday. It is said that on that day Jesus Christ comes back to 6 . Many people go to church and children often get 7 such as toy rabbits.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. It’s the most important festival in a year. The beautiful things can be 10 everywhere. People exchange 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 likes different pictures a lot. Mary likes Chinese because her father is Chinese. Her father 6 her Chinese at home. She loves China very much, and she wants to know more 7 China. Bob thinks math is very 8 , so he likes math best. David likes P.E. because he likes doing 9 . He thinks it’s good for him. He is good at 10 playing basketball and soccer.1. 2. 3. 4. 5.6. 7. 8. 9. 10.20Living in another country can be very lonely. Last year I went to a middle school in America.I had 1 friends there. I was always alone, and sometimes I felt like I was the only person in the world.One Monday, our 2 brought a boy into the classroom and told us, “This is Terry King, your 3 classmate.”He was tall and fat, and when he smiled, his eyes turned into a line. He was always 4 , and it seemed like he had no worries. Terry took the seat next to me. Then he looked at me for a second. I didn’t realize that we could become good 5 later.After school that day, I went to a net bar to play my favorite computer game. When I went inside, I got a big surprise: Terry was there and was playing the 6 game! “Hey, I’m surprised to see you here,” I said. I sat down beside him.“7 , too, ” he smiled, and his eyes turned into a line. I turned round and looked at his screen. He was a good player.I hoped we could play 8 . I asked excitedly, “Do you like this game, too?”In fact, I had never talked to a classmate so freely before, but his smile helped me to open up.“Would you like to play 9 me? ” I asked.“Sure, ” he answered. He seemed as happy as I was. As we started the 10 , we started our friendship, too.1. 2. 3. 4. 5.6. 7. 8. 9. 10.。