初三-首字母真题训练集

首字母真题训练1How do you remain confident when the world treats you badly? No one 66.s__________ it’s easy, but there are some ways to help you gainself-confidence.You should 67. t__________ not to be influenced by others’ opinions abouthow to succeed. Instead of feeling angry about others’ success---even if youthink they are not as 68. g__________ as you---tell yourself you can do it too,and go for it.Body language is also very 69. i__________. You may think it only influences the way others see you, but there is a lot more than that. Stand tall, smile and walk straight, and you will find 70. y__________ more active and lively.71. L__________ body language, speech also has something to do with your confidence. You should practice speaking 72. c__________ and loud enough to be heard without shouting! If you have 73. d__________ speaking up among classmates, practice what you want to say in front of a mirror for a few minutes.Some of us are good at 74. e__________ others and are generous with praise, but sometimes 5are too strict with ourselves. If you tell yourself you’re not good enough too 75. o__________, how will you expect to feel? So learn to tell yourself “Way to go”, “Good work” and “Nice one”, and start building self-confidence.首字母真题训练2Early people had no need for money. Each family group hunted for, found, or grew what it needed. Then life became less simple. People traded goods and services. As 66. e__________ as 9,000 years ago, people bought things with cattle (牲畜). Cattle became a way to measure (衡量) something’s worth.Later the Chinese may have been the 67. f__________ to use metal formoney. About 4,000 years ago, metal money was common in places outsideChina too. The value of a piece of metal depended on its 68. w__________,so scales (秤) were needed when things were bought. The small pieces ofmetal were formed in the shapes of money later on.Three thousand years ago, 69. g__________ and silver were used for money pieces. These metals were often 70. s__________ into rings. People wore their money before they spent it. The 71. g__________ made different coins for different values. The first known coins were round and flat and were made about 2,650 years ago in Turkey. Sailors brought these coins to Greece.The Romans started using coins about 2,300 years ago. Their coins spread 72. t__________ Europe, and their system of money was used throughout the Middle Ages, especially in England. The Middle Ages began about 1,500 years ago and 73. l__________ until about 650 years ago. Many people think our coins today aren’t worth much. Their real value has gone 74. d__________, because coins are no longer made of silver or gold. But we 75. s__________ use coins a lot. Every day in the US, enough quarters (二角五分的硬币) are used in coin-run games to cover more than ten football fields. That’s more than 70 million quarters every day.首字母填空3Thanksgiving is one of the most important holidays in the UnitedStates and Canada. In Canada it is celebrated on the second Monday ofOctober, 66. w__________ in the United States it is celebrated on thefourth Thursday of November. On Thanksgiving Day, families andfriends 67. g__________ to enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner, and thus Thanksgiving Day is sometimes referred to as “Turkey Day”. But what is Thanksgiving all about?Most people believe that Thanksgiving in America 68. s__________ in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621, when a native-American Indian tribe (部落) helped a group of European settlers—the Pilgrims (朝圣者)—to 69. s__________ the awful conditions in the New World. The settlers were so grateful (感激的) that they shared a three-day harvest feast (宴会) with the tribe. Since then, Thanksgiving has become a long-standing 70. t__________ in America. Unlike the American tradition of remembering the help given by the native-American Indians to Pilgrims in the New World, Thanksgiving in Canada is 71. s__________ a day for Canadians to give thanks for a successful harvest. Because the harvest season falls 72. e__________ in Canada than in America. Thanksgiving in Canada is celebrated in October instead of November.As the 73. n__________ of the holiday says, Thanksgiving is about being thankful. It is a time for people to give thanks to God, and it is also a time when everyone is 74. r__________ of the things that they should be grateful for. Some people often think about what they do not have. Thanksgiving 75. m__________ them think about the good things that they do have.Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday. However, we should all be thankful for what we have on more than one day a year.。