10篇初中英语综合填空

1、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

The continent（洲） Antarctica is the most southern area of land on the Earth and is mostly covered with ice. People have never wanted to l_____67___there because of its coldest temperature. But now scientists from all over the w______68__come to study the ice to learn more about the Earth’s history.

Some scientists live on Antarctica for part of the y____69__ . But they don’t usually stay there for more than six months

b____70___there are six months of light and six months of darkness.

Antarctica usually has a good deal of f__71___ weather without any wind at all. The strong winds are usually only in some parts of it. It is also i__72______to learn that it isn’t very wet there. There is very l__73_____snow or rain. It snows on the ice in winter, but at other times Antarctica is d__74______ , just like the Sahara Desert.

In winter the sea around Antarctica freezes (结冰) for

t____75____of kilometres. But scientists tell us that the earth is getting w_____76_____ . So in the future, there may be less ice in the Antarctic sea. When that happens, our weather will never be the same again.

参考答案：67. live 68. world 69. year 70. because 71.

fine 72. interesting 73. little 74. dry 75.

thousands 76. warmer

2、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries. In fact, an English dictionary you u 72 today wasn’t made until the Qing Dynasty. Three men did most of the important e 73 work on dictionary. They spent nearly all their l 74 trying to collect words for their dictionary. For them, it was a wonderful journey. The largest dictionary in the world is

Oxford English Dictionary. The i 75 for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857. Twenty-two years later, Oxford University asked James Murray to b 76 the editor of its new dictionary.

Murray had never been to college. At the age of fourteen, he left his village school in Scotland and taught h 77 while working in a bank. Later he became a great teacher. After Oxford gave him the job, Murray had a small house b 78 in his garden to do the work. Every morning, Murray got out of bed at five o’clock and w 79 in the small house several hours before breakfast. Often he would work into the night. Murray h 80 to finish the new dictionary in ten years. But after five years, he was still adding words for the letter “A”! He worked on the dictionary

u 81 he was very old. Forty-four years later, in 1928, other editors finished the dictionary.

参考答案：72. use 73. early 74. lives 75. idea 76. be/become 77. himself 78. built 79. worked 80. hoped 81. until

3、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

Do you enjoy climbing mountains? I’d like to tell you a true story about John and Peter. They were b 67 mountaineers(登山者). As John was experienced, he was always asking Peter to copy his example. “Would you like to stand on the t 68 of the world, Peter?” “Of course. It has already b 69 my dream,” Peter answered.

On a sunny morning, the two men started for the top of Mount Qomolangma. After they climbed over one of the most

d 70 slopes(斜坡), they found a man lying in th

e snow. “He’s going to d 71 ,” Peter looked at John and said, as i

f he would help the man. “ Leave him by himself and just follow me! But if you brin

g the burden(累赘)wit

h you, I’m a 72 you will lose your life.” John warned Peter. Then he turned around and walked