(完整word版)初中英语首字母填空(附标准答案)

Choosing a good birthday g _____ is sometimes a big problem. Most g _______ like beautiful things,
such as flowers, rings or necklaces. Boys may like a car model, a computer g ______ , or a
basketball. If your m ______ is a teacher, maybe she likes books, DVDs of popular movies, or a good
p ______ of shoes. And w ______ do fathers like? Maybe they w ______ like cell phones or PDAs.
It ' s easier t_o_ c __ gifts forb _______ or little children. Food and toys can m _____ them happy .
Key: 1.gift 。

2.girls 。

3.game。

4.mother 。

5.pair 。

6.what 。

7.would 。

8.choose。

9.babies 。

10.make Everybody wants to be h ______ . You know food is very i _____ . There are many h _______ foods.
You can have more bananas, apples, oranges, tomatoes and lettuce because fruits and v _______ are
good for you. But don 'et at too m _________ chocolate. It 'nso t good for you. Healthy food can
h ______ you grow and make you s _____ and happy. Remember there is a saying, “ An apple a d keeps the doctor a ______ . ” Sports can _a ____ keep you healthy. Get up e ____ and do some
sports e ______ day. Don ' t be lazy! You will be healthy and happy.
Keys: 1.healthy 。

2.important 。

3.healthy 。

4.vegetables 。

5.much 。

6.help 。

7.strong 。

8.away 。

9.also。

10.early 。

11.every
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F _____ : Janet
Message
To: Daniel
D _____ : 4:00, Aug.16
Honey:
Welcome home. Mom called m ______ and said that Dad fell o _____ his bike. I
h ______ to go to s ________ him. So could you pick up Sam at s _________ ? He has a
violin lesson at 6:00. Don' tl et him p ________ computer games until he finishes his
h ______ . R _______ a story book with him before his bedtime. I ' ll try to get home as
e as I can. Thanks.
Janet
Keys:1.From 。

2.Date。

3.me。

4.off 。

5.have。

6.see。

7.school。

8.play。

9.homework 。

10.read。

11.early
Americans usually eat three m ______ a day. Breakfast usually comes b ______ eight o 'clock
in the morning. They u _________ have eggs, some meat, bread, fruit juice and coffee. Lunch is
b ______ twelve and one o'clock. It is like a light meal and working people must take lunch
w _______ them or get it n ______ workplace.
Children in school take sandwiches, fruit, and cookies with them or eat in school. S ______ , the
main meal, is between six and eight in the evening. People cook it c _____ . They may have meat or
chicken, turkey and duck. They may all have potatoes or rice, vegetables o ______ salad. The drink is
coffee, tea or m _____ . Then comes the dessert.
Keys:1.meals。

2.before。

ually。

4.between。

5.with 。

6.near 。

7.supper 。

8.carefully 。

9.or 。

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Making Choices in the Shopping
We go s ______ almost every day. We have m ________ choices of the places to buy things. Supermarket is the right p ________ for you. There are some good points buying t ___________ at the supermarket.
1. You buy things at the supermarket at a l _____ price. You pay much more in the big store to
buy the s _______ goods.
2. You decide what to buy all by y _____ at the supermarket. And you don 't have troubles from
the shop assistant at the big store.
3. There a ______ more choices of goods to buy at the supermarket. You can buy many things
for a week 's use at a t ____ : it s ________ us much money and time.
In a word, it is better to buy things at a supermarket.
Keys:1.shopping 。

2.many。

3.place。

4.things 。

5.low。

6.same。

7.yourself 。

8.are。

9.time。

10.saves
I'm going to s ______ a movie with my f ______ this weekend. We love movies, but we all
like d ______ kinds. I like to see thrillers and science fictions, my friend Sam loves action movies and
comedies and my b ______ friend, Lee, loves a good romance. Because we like different kinds of
movies, it can be d ______ to choose（选择）one to see. So we usually take turns （轮流）to choose
the movie. It's my t ________ to choose this weekend, so we're going to see Harry Potter Ⅱ , an
i _______ movie. It 's number o _____ at the box office, and e ______ is saying what a great movie
it is. I can 't wait!
Keys:1.see。

2.friends 。

3.different 。

4.best。

5.difficult 。

ually 。

7.turn 。

8.interesting 。

9.one。

10.everyone
The Skyscrapers（摩天大厦） in New York City
New York is the most exciting c _____ in the United States. It is not o _______ the center of
commerce and business for the United States, but also o _____ of the three “world cities ”. Together
w ______ London and Tokyo, it controls the world 's finance. There are many high-rise business
b ______ in this city. People call them skyscrapers. The tallest skyscraper was the World Trade
Center. It had 110 floors. S _______ , this building was destroyed （被摧毁）by the terrorist attack on
Sep. 11, 2001, and yet, the glory and image of it still remain vividly （生动地）in the memory of the world people. The Empire State Building is not as t _________________ as the World Trade Center, but it is the
tallest building in New York City now. It has 102 f _____ . The skyscrapers in New York City are
world-famous f_______ their grandeur and their beautiful architecture （建筑）. Every year millions of
people come to v ______ them.
Keys:1.city 。

2.only。

3.one。

4.with 。

5.buildings 。

6.Sadly。

7.tall。

8.floors。

9.for。

10.visit
In almost every big university in the USA, football is a favorite s ______ . American football is
not like soccer. Players sometimes kick the b ______ , but they also throw the ball and run with it.
They try to take it to the o ______ end of the field. They have four chances to move the ball ten yards.
They can carry it or throw it, If they move it to the end of the filed, they receive six points. This is c a touch down.
It is h ______ to move the ball. Eleven men in the team try to s _______ the man who has the
ball. If the man does not move the ball ten yards, his team kicks the ball to the other team.
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Each university wants its team to w _______ . Thousands of people come to w _____ . They all
yell for their favorite team. Young men and women called cheerleaders come on the field to help the people yell more. They d _______________ and jump while they yell.
Each team plays ten or eleven games each season. The season be ______ in September and ends
in November. If a team is very good, it may play another game after the season ends. The best teams play a on January 1, the first day of the New Year. Many people go to see these games and
many others watch them on TV.
Keys:1.sport 。

2.ball 。

3.other 。

3.called。

5.hard 。

5.stop。

7.win 。

8.watch。

9.dance。

10.begins。

11.again
Schools in the U.S.A
Schools in the U.S.A are a little d ______ from schools in China. U ______ , there is no school
uniform. In many C _____ schools, students have school uniforms. Classes s ______ at 8:30 each
morning and the school day ends at 3:30 or 4 o 'clock in the U.S.A. And in China, classes usually start at 8:00 in the morning and the school day ends at 5:30 in the a ______________ . Students have one h _______
for lunch and two 20-minute breaks each day in U.S.A. One break is in the morning, and the other is in the afternoon. In China, students have two hours ' break during lunchtime and ten minutes break for e class period. In U.S.A, students o ___________________________ go to the school cafeteria at lunchtime or at
break. They b ______ snacks and drinks there. The most p ______ after-school activities are baseball,
football and basketball.
Keys: 1.different ually 3.Chinese 4.start 5.afternoon 6.hour 7.each 8.often 9.buy 10.popular Buying things online is becoming a v ______ popular way for people to do their shopping. It
very convenient for them because all they have to do is just turn on their personal c ______ and surf
the Interneton it, searching f ______ their favorite goods.
There are m ______ items on the Internet they can choose from, like travel tickets, music CDs,
books, household goods, entertainment tickets, toys, etc.
The most common advantages of shopping o ________ are its convenience, l ________ prices, wide
choice of products, time to make decisions, and its q ______ delivery.
Many people are worried a ______ sending their credit card details over the Internet while they
shop online. However, in f _____ , there is very little of card theft from well-known sites on the net.
But there is a real danger of buying m ______ than you need, because all you need to do is click a
mouse button.
Keys:1.very puter 3.for 4.many 5.online 6.low 7.quick 8.about 9.fact 10.more You may p ______ your money in a piggy bank in your home to keep safe. Or you may want to
put your money in a bank. The bank not only keeps your money safe but it also l _____ it. The bank
will give people money for special reasons. This is c ________________ a loan（贷款）. If a family wishes to
b ____ a new car, but they do not have e ______ money, they will ask the bank f _____ a loan. The
bank will give the family enough money to buy a car. Later they pay it back to the bank. The bank might a lend money to someone to buy a new house. They may loan money to a company to
build a big new ship or even loan money to build a n __________ hospital. So your money might be sent to
work all o ________ the world. But it will always be there when you want it b __________ .
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Keys:1.put 2.lends 3.called 4.buy 5.enough 6.for 7.also 8.new 9.over 10.back Sally has been q ______ unhappy recently.She didn '___t _d_o_ _w on any of her tests at school. In addition, she was late f _________ school three times last week. Her teacher was very a __________ with her.
She didn ' t feel any better at home. Her mother was angry with her, too. She wanted her to s _______
hard and s _____ more time on her homework, not on computer games. Sally knew her mother was
right. She should not spend so much time on the Internet or stay up l _________ playing computer games.
She knew she should listen to her mother and be a goodstudent as she was before. But it seemed very hard for Sally to c ___________________ . For example, yesterday before she got home, she told herself she should do
her homework first. But after she got home and saw the desktop in her room, she changed her mind and decided to play computer games for thirty minutes. But afte r many “ thirty minutes ” passed, she was s _ on the Internet. She didn __ 't eat dinner and of course she didn ______________________________________ '_. Ht deor any of her
mother got so angry that she shoutedat her. Finally, they had a fight.
Keys:1.quite 2.well 3.for 4.angry 5.study 6.spend te 8.change 9.still 10.homework Many people l _________ Sherlock Holmes, one of the most famous detectives in the world. He is
especially p________ with young people. He is s____________ smart that he can solve almost any kind of
mystery, even with few clues. However, maybe you will feel shocked to k ____________ that he is not a real
man. He is only a character in the novels created years ago by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a well-known British w . What 's more interesting, many readers at that time sent _a_ _l__________________________ of mail to the house
where Holmes l _______ . Once, Doyle felt tired of writing detective novels and wanted to end Holmes
l ________ . Many readers got angry and a___________ the writer to make the hero alive again. Conan had
n ____ choice but to bring Holmes back from the dead.
Keys:1.like 2.popular 3.so 4.know 5.writer 6.lot 7.live 8.life 9.asked 10.no
In A _______ , spring comes with Easter. Easter is a religious h _________ . It is celebrated on a
Sunday b _______ March 22 and April 25. Many Students a __________ have a week of spring break
holidays around Easter.
Hundreds of y ______ ago, the ancient peopleSaxons celebrated the return of s _____ at Easter
time. The dark of winter was gone, and the sunlight of spring came back. The Easter rabbit became a symbol of Easter because o _____________ the goddess, Eastre.
Today, people u ______ put colored eggs in little baskets. Children believe the Easter Bunny
brings the eggs for them because they believe that the Easter rabbitlaid the eggs there. Today Easter candy is made to look like the form of eggs, and little baby chickens and rabbits. Eggs are i _____________ .
And it's a symbol of rebirth. With the coming of spring, people hope for a new l ______ .
Keys:1.America 2.holiday 3.between 4.always 5.years 6.spring 7.of ually 9.important 10.life In 16 th-century France, people celebrated the New Year on April 1. They had parties and danced until very late at n _______________ . Then in 1562, Pope Gregory said e _________ must use a new calendar.
New Years Day on the n ______ calendar was January 1. Not everyone followed the new calendar,
however. Some s _____ celebrated the New Year on April 1. Others played tricks on t ______ and
called them “ April Fools. ”
Today Americans call April 1, April Fool ' s Day_. _T_h_e_y_ p_la oyn j people on April 1. For
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example, school children might t _______ a classmate that school has been canceled. Or a child might
p _____ salt in the sugar bowl at h ______ . Whatever the trick, most April Fool jokes are all for fun
and not meant to h ______ anyone.
Keys:1.night 2.everyone 3.new 4.still 5.them 6.jokes 7.tell 8.put 9. home 10.hurt When you m _______ to a new country, you may have culture shock. It's the feeling of not
knowing what to do or how to do things in a n _____ place. You usually have such feelings after the
first few weeks of going to a new place. The way that you lived before is not accepted. Everything is d . For example, not speaking the language or not knowing h __________________ to use the telephone.
Then, how can you deal with culture shock? F _________ , get a hobby. Second, be easy on yourself.
Third, get in touch with your f _________ . Last, find ways to live with the things that are different.
E _____ will become OK this way.
Have you ever learned about the “ foodp yramid ”A? ll the
foods we eat are in six groups: 1) grains 。

2) fruits 3) vegetables 。

4) meat, fish and eggs。

5) dairy(乳) products, like milk and cheese。

6) sweets and greasy foods.
Look at the picture above. It 'csa lled the “ foodp yramid ”
Most of our diet should come from the first two levels. They give us the
fiber we need. The third level gives us calcium and protein.
We shouldn 't eat_ a_ _l __ from the group on the top of the
food pyramid. We c ________ it “ junkf ood. ”M any desserts and snack foods, like cake and potato
chips, belong to it. These foods have lots of sugar, salt or both.
Remember, what we eat is very important, and regular e ______ is also more important to our
good health.
Keys:1.move 2.new 3.different 4.how 5.First 6.friends 7.everything 8.lot 9.call 10.exercise
The birthday of the United States is on the Fourth of J ______ . It is also c _______ Independence
Day. In 1776, leaders in America declared their independence. They were a _________ with England
because the King of England wanted them to p _________ high taxes. So the American leaders got
together and wrote a Declaration of Independence. In the declaration, the leaders wrote, created equal.”A this, the United States was born.
Keys:1.July 2.called 3.angry 4.pay 5.After
Today, Independence Day is a national holiday for Americans. They celebrate it w ____________ parades, speeches, outdoor shows, ball games, and evening fireworks displays. Families usually h picnics.
Amy has pictures on her piano. One of t __________ is a photo of Mr. Lee. L ________ ago, Mr. Lee
owned a p _______ store. He also played the piano and gave lessons on weekends. Amy began to
study the piano with him w _________ she was young. He was very kind. And Amy learned a lot
f ______ him quickly. When she was thirteen y ______ old, her family moved to another city. After
that, Amy had other piano teachers. They helped Amy b ______ a wonderful player. Today, Amy is
quite famous. She plays piano for people all over the world. Her life is very busy now. But she still thinks sometimes of Mr. Lee. He was a very special person in her l long ago.
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Keys:1.with 2.have 3.them 4.long 5.paino 6.when 7.from 8.years 9.become 10.life
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