初中七年级英语短文阅读填空专题训练

初中七年级英语短文阅读填空专题训练
初中七年级英语短文阅读填空专题训练
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1.Different holiday homework
Did you find your homework boring during the winter holiday? Students from Kouzhen Middle School, Laiwu,Shandong, had some really______(interest)homework!
Teachers asked their students to e______ themselves with friends in the outdoors _____ at least three days! For the Spring Festival, they should also help their parents _______(clean) the house, do the festival ______(shop) and treat their relatives (招待亲戚) at home.
_____course, not every part of the homework was fun. They also had a special (特殊的) “seven days”. In these days, they ______(can't)play computer games, watch TV, eat junk food (垃圾食品) or even play on _____(they) phones. Maybe it was really hard to imagine (想象) seven days w_____ the phone around. But these students did it. Could you imagine doing ______ same?
2.Please don't leave anything
Shirly was an office worker in a big city. After ____(work) overtime for a month, Shirley needed to take ____ break. So she decided to go on a five-day t____ far away home.
She packed up _____locked the house. To remind the milkman, she put up a note for _____(he) on the door: “Nobo dy is at home .Don’t leave _____(something)here.” Then she called a taxi and left.
When Shirley got back after her five-day trip, she was ______ (surprise) . There was nothing left in her house but the note she
had ______(leave) . On the note, she found a message ______ had been added:“Thanks for your generosity (慷慨)! We haven’t left anything! Today is my ____(luck) day!”
3.Your old friend Tintin is back! He will go on another adventure_____meet new friends in the latest movie.What will happen? Go on to read the ______(follow) introductions and discover other great movies worth watching this winter holiday.
The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun
《丁丁历险记2：太阳的囚徒》
Release date: Dec 16, 2016 (US)
Tintin is a young _____(report) .He arrives in Peru _____his friend Captain Haddock and his dog Snowy.There, they plan to stop the arrival of a ship, Pachacamac._____(they)friend Professor Calculus is held on the
ship____ kidnappers (绑匪). Tintin boards the ship to save Calculus. He saves a young boy____(call)Zorrino. They become friends after that.
After many hardships, Tintin, Haddock, and Zorrino reach the Temple of the Sun (太阳神殿) to f____ more secrets. However, their enemy Inca catches them. The Inca prince wants to kill them by burning them. But Tintin notices the power of the sun eclipse (日食). He says he can command the sun and the Inca prince orders him to perform a show. They are _____(look) for ways to beat the enemy during the show. Will Tintin and his friends survive and leave Peru _____(safe)？
4.Cheer up for the coming spring!
It is Spring Festival time .It’s a fun time to be with our family. What are you going to do? Let’s have a look at the Spring Festival and its fun_____(activity) .
The date of the Spring Festival always changes. Usually the
date falls between the end of January and F________19th. This year it falls on January 27. But the celebration usually starts one week b____ Spring Festival Eve (除夕).
Xiaonian 欢天喜地过小年
We usually clean houses on this day of Xiaonian. By cleaning, we can sweep bad luck a_____. Another thing we do is decorating (装饰) our homes _____spring couplets (春联), paper-cuttings (剪纸) and the upside-down “fu” character (倒“福”字).
Did you know All about "Nian"
A long time ago, a monster (怪物) called Nian ate people ____Spring Festival Eve. But Nian was afraid of loud noises, the c____ red and fire. So, people played the drums (鼓) and gongs (锣) and set off fireworks. It scared (吓走)” Nian”.
From then on, on Spring Festival Eve, people play drums and gongs, set off fireworks and put up red lanterns3. We welcome the new year.
Dos and Don'ts of Spring Festival
1. Fish is a must (必吃的食物) for the Spring Festival dinner table. There is a Chinese saying, “May you get more t_____ you wish for” (年年有余). In Chinese, “fish” has the s_____ sound as the c haracter for “more”.
2. Don’t sweep the floor on _____first day. Otherwise (否则), you’ll sweep away the good luck of the new year.
3. Break a bowl or a plate? Take it easy! Because “sui” in ______(China) means both “break” (碎) and “year” (岁). We could say “sui sui ping an” (岁岁平安).
4. The Spring Festival is a time to make people happy, so don't say any bad w_____ such as “death”.
5.Cheer up for the coming spring!
Spring Festival Eve 团圆的除夕夜
The big day is coming! Families get together and have a big _____. We make jiaozi and tangyuan. Then, we stay up late and w_____ the Spring Festival Gala (春节联欢晚会). When it’s drawing near to 0:00, we all count down (倒计时) to the ______(excited)moment. The Chinese New Year comes! Bang! (砰) Bang! We set off (燃放) the fireworks .We say g_______ to the past year and welcome the new year!
Spring Festival 初一大拜年
We kids put _____ our new clothes to visit our grandparents. We wish our grandparents health and longevity (健康长寿). They give us gifts of money. The following days, we visit our friends. We wish each other good luck and a happy new year.
Another i______ thing is going to the temple fair (庙会). It looks _____ a big party with snack food and acrobatic (杂技) shows.
Lantern Festival 开心元宵节
Lantern Festival is ____end of the Spring Festival. We make lanterns and p_____ riddles. We eat some yuanxiao or tangyuan. They are _____(make) of flour(面粉）and sweet bean paste (豆沙). Yummy!
6.Buying festival gifts
Spring Festival is coming! What gifts do you want to send to your family? Look at the following small family gifts to get some good ideas.
Snacks are necessary during the Spring Festival. People can share____(they)when watching TV or ____ (play)card games. Each gift snack pack usually costs about 80 yuan. But the p____ during the festival may get higher.
Tea set
If your family members like drinking tea, a tea set is a good present ____ them. There are different kinds of tea sets you can
choose. And drinking tea is good for your health. You may spend about 500 yuan on _____ ordinary (普通的) tea set.
Hand warmer
It’s cold during the Spring Festival. Why not send a small hand warmer ____ your family? Is it expensive? Not at all. It is very c____. Each hand warmer only costs about 60 yuan.
Sweater
A sweater is one of the most popular____(gift) in the Spring Festival. It can s____ your love and keep your family warm. How much is it? It costs about 300 yuan _____average (平均).
7.Tea’s history
China is one of the biggest tea production countries in the world. Tea has ___ long history in China. In old stories, Shen nong (神农) was good at farming. One day, he was_____(boil) water outdoors.
Some_____(leaf) fell into the water. The water turned yellow. Shen nong drank it. He found that the water tasted ____(good) with leaves.
An ancient road made tea popular around China. It was the Ancient Tea Horse Road (茶马古道). There were t_____ main roads. One began in Sichuan province. The other began in Yunnan province. Each one ended in Tibet. Did you know? Drinking tea can make people happy.
Tea and horses “茶马”的来源
Tibetans (藏民)have a tea history of about 1,000 years. The w______in Tibet is dry and cold. Tibetans need to eat a lot and keep warm.
Tea can help digest (消化) the fat. But tea can’t grow here .They sell_____(they) horses for tea in other parts of China.
The road in Yunnan 马蹄踩出来的路
Pu-erh tea (普洱茶) grows in Yunnan. In the past, horses carried bags of tea from Yunan to Tibet. The trip took more than two ______(month) .
The road in Sichuan 脚踩出来的路
In Sichuan, the road is very d____ for horses. So only people carry bags of tea. Each young ______(work) carries 15 bags of tea. Each bag weighs 10 kg.
8.Book’s deep message
I’m Joi Gillette from the Chicago Tribune. I read this book called A Bitter Pill to Swallow. I find the story very attractive (吸引人的) and I want you ____(read) it too.
The story happened in a special school for troubled teenagers. The author cared about this group of kids and wanted to bring attention to schools for the _____(child) with special needs.
A young guy named Devante was one of the main characters (角色). He was so sad after his friend died. He tried to kill_____(him).So his parents brought him to the special school. There he met Janina. This young girl seemed to feel safe inside the walls and liked the school. She____(real) doesn’t want to leave. These two teens became f______. In the school, there were doctors，too. Dr. Lutkin was____ very understanding man, and Dr Gail Thomas was a hardworking young woman.
Dr Gail was my favorite character.I like how determined she was. If something isn’t right, she w ill not stand for it, and she will try her____(good) to make things better.She always wanted the best for the school and the youths there. The whole book makes you want to find out the ____(true) of each character. You want to know their _____(story) and find out things like why Dr Gail cares so much. The plot (情节) is strong and the plot twists
(曲折) make your mind explode! It makes you want to jump inside the book. Why not read it and see _____ yourself?
9. What’s the best way to get kids helping?
Do you often do chores in the house? After you complete your chores, will your parents give you a reward? It is common for parents to reward ____(they)kids____ doing chores. But some people do not think it is a good idea.
One of them is Susie Walton, a parenting educator (育儿教育家) and family coach. She believes ___ kids get rewards, they will think that work isn’t worth doing unless you get something in return. Kids won’t sweep the floor if they see it is d_____. But they will if their parents reward them for it.
“Every house is ___ team effort,”Walton said.“A home is a living space for everyone in the family. It’s important for kids to see _____ we all have responsibilities (责任) to keep our home clean.”
Other people don’t think so. They believe that rewards encourage kids to do more chores. It also ______(teach) them real world lessons. They can learn about how we need to work to earn (挣得) money.
Now, there are also apps ____ChoreMonster to encourage kids to do chores. With the app, kids earn digital (电子的) points after doing chores. Then they can exchange their points for real rewards, such as time playing video games or a t_____ to the mall.
“Kids need positive(积极的)power_____(make) them do chores,”says Chris Bergman, founder of ChoreMonster. 10. Mr .Dawson is an old man with a bad temper (脾气). Kids were a______ to go into his yard to pick apples.
One day, 12-year-old Janet and her friend Amy ____(have) to walk past Mr Dawson’s house.When Janet saw him outside, she
suggested they cross the street and walk ____the other side.But Amy said they didn’t need to.。