初三综合填空专项练习

初三综合填空专项练习

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A long time ago there was this planet with land and water and creatures. Among many creatures, there w ________ people like you. As you can imagine, the number grew and grew…

They built housers f __________ trees that they could live in, and ate food from packages m_________ of paper and tin. They made all k_______ of objects that helped them go far, like p__________, trains, trucks and cars. They b _________ highways, bulidings, bridges and made machines and so much more!

The planet became so c________ that many social problems rose up. W ________ nature once flourished was covered with materials. This planet is under such stress! If we make changes now, we will not make a big mess. If you lend us a h________, we will all work t _________, and we’ll make our world better.

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Americans have come to depend on their cars more than any people in o_________ countries. The family car has been a common thing s __________ the early twentieth century, and it has c ________ American life. Many people have moved out of the l_______ cities to the country. Some Americans spend two hours a day or more in their cars g _________ to work and home again. Cars have become the means of transportation for most Americans going s ________, and e ___________going on holidays. Americans u_______ to like big cars, and gas used to be very c________. Recently, however, the cost of gas has gone up, and smaller cars have become more p_________ . they have bought large numbers of Japanese and German cars. They have bought cars from some ther countries as well. 3．根据短文内容及着字母提示填空，使短文意思完整

Manners are important in every country, but people have different i_________ about their manners. What is good in one country may not be w________ in another.

Chinese people are s ________ to know the fact that an Englishman doesn’t stop to talk and shake hands with his friend in the street. They just say hello t________ each other and then pass on.

English people think t _______ we Chinese end our visits to friends all of a sudden. They usually begin to s_______ that they want to go 15 or 20 minutes before they leave their f _________ house. And they do this two or three t ________ within 20 minutes.

It is important f _____ people to understand each other. Here is a s _________, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.”

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Dear Joe,

How is everything going? I miss you very much.

Thank you for ______ me the English stamps. How beautiful ____ are! I like them. I like collecting stamps very much. In fact, I have been doing it ________ I was eight years old. Now I have more _________ five thousand stamps from different countries.

In my opinion collecting stamps is ________ and interesting. When you collect stamps, you will see many ______ of men and women, birds and animals on them. You will _______ a lot more about the world.

Last year I ______ a stamp club in my city. It has over on hundred members and we are all _______ collectors. We meet every month and talk about our collections. I have made many ______ there. By the way what’s your hobby? What can I do for you?

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Everyone likes to l_______ in a clean and comfortable environment. If the environment is b ________, it will make us feel unpleasant. Sometimes we may be terribly i_______. At that time we don’t want to w ________, we have to stay in bed and rest at h________. So the environment is very i________ to us. It is germs that make us ill. There are germs e________. They are very small and we can’t f ______ them with our own eyes. To keep us h_______, wi should try our best to make our environment becaome cleaner and tidier. This needs us to act t _________.

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In the old days, London was known as a city of fog. The fog was as thick as pea soup. London’s fog was c _________ by factory smoke, so it was called “smog”. The smog was so thick t______ car and bus drivers could h ________ see the road in front of them even during the daytime. People had to w ________ “smog-mask” over their faces when they went out.

In December, 1952, a very thick dark cloud came down over the city. It was the w_______ smog Londoners had ever had. Nearly fifty p_______ died in road accidents. Many more people b ________very unhealthy. After three weeks, the smog began to l_________SLOWLY. LIFE IN London came back to normal. But now long after that, over 4000 people died as a r_______ of the smog. In 1956, the British s _______ bruning coal in houses and factories in the city. London’s air got cleaner.

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The elephant is the biggest forur-legged animal in the world. It is also, perhaps, the gentlest, but not a ________.

Elephants l________ for a long time, fifty or sixty years. They never forget great sadness or great happiness. A female elephant dies, her daughters and her granddaughters will be s ________ for many months.

Elephants live in matrilineal families. There are a few young males-baby elphants. But they will soon l______ their families when they grow up. An elephant family k_______ only its daughter, mothers and grandmothers.

The females stay together all their l______. The older ones l_______ after the younger ones. The mothers teach

their daughters and set a good example. And w_______ happens to male elephants? A ull exephant doesn’t often have a friend. He lives a_______. Sometimes the females call a bull. He can v_________ them then, but soon his wives and sisters send him away again.

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We each have a memory. Tha t’s why we can remember things after a l________ time. Some people have a very good memory and they can learn many things e________ by heart, b_______ some people can only remember things when they say or do them again and again.

A good memory h_______ one learn a language well. Everybody learns his o_________ language when he was a small child. He hears the sounds, remembers t_________ and then he learns to s_________. Some children l_________ with their parents in foreign countries. They can learn two languages easily because they hear, remember and speak the two languages every day. In school it is not easy to learn a foreign language because the students have little time for it and they have to learn o_______ subjects, too.

Our memory can get better and better if we do more and more e ________. Do you want to learn a foreign language well? If so, you must do a lot of listening and speaking.

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What do you know about mars? What does it look like?

Mars goes around the sun at a distance of about 228 million kilometers. It is a q_______ as big as the earth. It is bright red in the night sky and it looks like a red and orange ball. It’s very beautiful. But furing spring and summer, strong storms can c________ the whole surface of it. A person who w________ 90kg on earth has only 30 kg on Mars. The temperature on Mars is between -140℃and 20℃

There m______ be life on Mars. We know more about it than any other planets. But s _______ are researching about it. For example, some think that on Mars there may be changes of w_______ during the year. Our weather changes from winter to summer. M______ it is the same on Mars. But they are not sure i________ there are green fields on Mars.

It t________ a spaceship from earth about eight months to reach Mars when the two planets are closest to each other. People are finding out more i________ about Mars each year. We expect that man can live on Mars some day. 10．根据短文内容及着字母提示填空，使短文意思完整

Mr. Blcak lives in the south of America. He has two children: one is a son named Mike and the o_______ is a daughter whose name is Lily. Last September, as soon as Mike had his seventh birthday, he went to s ______. And now he’s in Garde T______. He works hard and he is always ready to help others. He’s six years y________ than his sister, but he always wants to do something for her.

Lily studies in a middle school. She is g______ at English and math, but she hates geography. She doesn’t think it e_______ to remember the place names, and she often fails geography exams.

One day, when Mike got home, he saw his sister c_______ in her bedroom. He came in and asked, “What h________ to you, sister?”

“We had a geography exam this morning,” the girl said in tears, “but I forgot where the Great Wall was. I am sure I won’t p_______ the exam!”

“Dn’t w________ about it.” Said the boy, “Try to recolect where you put it. I can help you to find it.”

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As prices and building costs keep rising, the “do-it-yourself”(DIY) trend in the U.S. continues to g_________. “We needed furniture for our living room,” says John Rose, “and we just didn’t have e _______ money to buy it. So we decided to try making a few tables and chairs. “ John got married six months ago, and like many young people these days, they are stuggling to make a home at a time when the cost of living is very h______. The Roses took a two-week course for $280 at a night school. Now they build all their furniture and make repairs around the house.

Jim Hatfield has three boys and his wife died. He has a f_______ job in a shoe m ________ factory. Last month, he r________ a car repair bill for $420. “I was deeply upset about it. Now I’ve f_______ a car repair course, I should be able to fix the car by myself.”

John and Jim are not u_______ people. Most families in the country are doing everything they can to save money so they can fight the high cost of living. If you want to become a “do-it-yourselfer”, you can go to DIY classes. And for t_______ who don’t have time to take a course, there are books that tell you h______ you can do things yourself. 12．根据短文内容填空，

I began to send e-mails when I was 1i discovered Goole 5 years later. Now, I use the _______ all the time. Internet has become ________ popular that 90 percent of 12-or-17-year-olds in the United States use the Internet, and about half of these kids use it every day. They visit chat rooms and send e-mails. They go to websites to get information for _______ homework. “Kids are now living in a virtual world”says Greenfield, an expert at the should University of California, “As the Internet is ______ more and more important for our life, we should _______ about one question: Is the Internet good or bad _______ kids?”

“It’s hard to answer the question _______ the Internet involves so many things, “says Justine, who is from Northwestern University. “They include online computer game, new, messages and even e-mails to your grandmother.”_______, more and more people believe that the online world can be _________ in some ways but dangerous in others.

“Although it’s not easy to _________ whether it’s good or bad,” says Justine, “the internet, at least is very useful and can be used widely by everyone in the world.”

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Amy is a clever young girl who is from a rich and famous family. She goes to a good university and has everything that money can buy. But she has a problem that hher parents are so busy that they can h________ find time to be with her. She is l________. So Amy s ________ a lot of time on QQ. She likes t________ to people who don’t know about her famous family and rich life. She used the name Lucy on QQ and has made a lot of friends.

Last year, Amy made a very special friend on QQ. His name was John. He lived in New Your. John was f ______ of stories and jodes. He and Amy had a common i_______ in rock music and dance. So it always made them talk happily on QQ. S__________ they even forgot the time. Of course, they wanted to know m_________ about each other. John sent a picture of himself. He was a tall, good-looking young man with a big, happy smile. As time went by, they became good friends and often sent cards and small things to each other.

When Amy’s father told her that he was g________ to New York for business, she asked him to l_______ her go with him. In this way, she could give John a surprise for his birthday. She would give him the latest DVD of their favorite singer. But when Amy knocked on John’s door in New York, she found the special friend was just a twelve-year-old boy named David.

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People like to live in different places. Some like big cities, others like the c_________. Some like to live in suburbs. Some like to live on a farm.

Some people like to live in the country b________ they like to have more space. They like the air outdoors. They a __________ like smaller schools there. In the country you can see many birds, flowers, trees and small animals. Today many country r__________ are good so that it is easy for people to go from one place to a__________. Daily newspapers and letters can reach the country in time. Many families have radios, televisions and telephones. The shops have e__________ in them. Families know each other. They do a lot of things to m__________ their villages good places.

Some families like to live in suburbs. A subuub is n___________ a city. It’s much quieter there than in the city. People living there can e_________ many things like people in the city and also enjoy many things like people in the country.

In a city there are many l_________ shops. People can buy all kinds of things in them. There are more jobs in a city. The parks, zoos, museums and cinemas have many visitors every day. Young people always like to live in cities. 15．根据短文内容及着字母提示填空，使短文意思完整

Closing the Gap

Sometimes kids don’t think their parents are fair to them. When you want to d_________ in a modern way, your mom doesn’t like you wearing a miniskit. When you are making phone calls to friends, they ask w_________ you’re speaking to a boy or a girl.

Sometimes it seems that you’re not as close to your parets as you used to be. How can you becaome close again?

Closing the Gap by American author, Jay McGraw, give some a________ on how to have a better ralationshi with your parents.

The book gives ways to help teens u_________ their parents. When you think “My parents don’t want me to have any fun.”, that usually means your parents want you to be safe. B___________ parents and children have needs. They need to feel they are important and loved.

You should tell your parents your needs, and find out w________ their needs are. Then, you can think of a way to m_________ all of you happy. The book gives you some ideas:

Make time to t_________. You could talk about your school life and your plans for the future.

Kee a diary. This is to help you understand more about yourself and your feelings.

Show your parents you are g_______ up. Wash your own clothes and help around the house. Your parents will feel that you are no longer a smass child.

If you f________ these steps, slowly, you will be able to break down the walls between your parents and you. 16．根据短文内容及着字母提示填空，使短文意思完整

I have a friend, c_______ Tom. He has a large police dog. The dog’s name is Jack. Police dogs are often very c_______. Every Sunday morning, my friend likes to t________ Jack for a long walk in the park. Jack likes to do that as well. One Sunday morning, a young man came to v__________ my friend. They talked and talked. Soon it was t_______ for my friend to take Jack for his walk, but the visitor was still there. Jack became very w_________ about his walk in the park with Tom, he walked around the room several times and then sat down directly in front of the visitor and looked at him. But the visitor p________ no attention to it. He went on t_______. Finally, Jack could no l________ stand it. He went out of the room and a few minutes l_________, he came back with the visitor’s hat in his mouth. 17．根据短文内容及着字母提示填空，使短文意思完整

One Sunday morning in 1959, a group of friends met for lunch after a h______ party the night before. They were pretending to watch TV, b________ most of them were half asleep. To w______ the others up, one of them s _______ said, “I am going to l_______ to fly. “ the speaker was Sheila Scott. She was already over thirty and she had a son and two daughters. She had been a nurse in the Second World War. Now she was w______ in films and the theater, but she did not f_______ very successful. She could not pass her driving t______. Her friends laughed. Sheila could not d_______ a car. She would never be able to fly a p_______

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Every year people c______ the Spring Festival in China. Usually it is i_______ January or February. It’s the m_______ important festival in China. So before it come, everyone buys many t________, and they often make a

s_______ kind of food-dumplings. It means “come t_______. Parents always buy new clothes f________ their children, and children also buy presents for their parents. O_________ the Spring Festival Eve, all the family members come back home. They sing, dance and play cards. When they enjoy the meal, they give each other the best wishes for the c_________ year. They all have a w_________ time.

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Most things can not be ___________ without friends, but reading can. While we are sitting _______ in our houses, we can _________ around the whole world, and we can _________ lots of things. We can talk ________ the persons hundreds of years ago. Though we may not be ________, we can become the________ of them. Only books can give us these _________. If you cannot enjoy them, you are a _______ person. If you enjoy them most, you will be the ____________ person in the world.