(完整)牛津沪教版英语九年级上首字母专项练习

九年级上首字母专项训练

Exercise 1

Do you like to read science books? Reading science is not quite like reading a p____1__ or story. You read to get information. Over the years much of the scientific information that has been c___2_____ has been put into books. So we read to learn. We should try to be better readers in science.

Books on science often contain many s__3____ new words and much new information. It is important for us to know the m__4____ of every word we read. There are many difficult words in science books and articles. We must understand these words in order to understand the m____5___ the words bring.

We must keep our m__6___ on what we are reading. We must know why we are reading. We ask questions before we read. “What is this book about? Why should I read it? Will the title help me find out why I should read it?”

If we can keep a record of what we read, that is, write down important words and information, these records help us remember what we have read. We read some books more than once. Often, we read to discover f___7___that we didn’t find in our first reading.

Exercise 2

Chinese are very generous when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the

United States or Australia. The Chinese believe that themore expensive an education is , the better it is . So the parents will spend a lot ofmoney on education. Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter.Though they are not rich, they would rather pay for the education.

Parents can see that their children's skills vary , skilled in some areas while poor in others . But most parents fail to r____2_____ that today's children lack self-respect and self-confidence.

The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study well, but parents aren't teaching them the most important skills that they need. And these skills are important to help them to be confident , happy and c___3______.

Parents can a___4___ this by teaching practical skills like cooking , sewing and doing housework .

Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that the will need later in life . Cooking demands p_____5___ and time . It's an enjoyable but difficult experiment. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually to finish his job s___6______. His result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and a lot of self-confidence.

Some old m___7____ , such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your children to play with will make him curious and arouse his interest He will spend hours looking at them , trying to fix them ; your childmight become an engineer when he grows up . These activities aren't merely teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think , to use his mind . And that is more important.

Exercise 3

We can’t really say that one language is easier or more difficult than another language. In some ways, English is an easy language to learn. Take the verbs for example, in some languages, you have to make many,many c____1___ to the verb—in Latin, for example, there are more than 120 different f___2__ of one verb! In English, there are only five. With verb “go” for example, there’s “go”, “goes”, “went”, “going”, and “gone”, but we use them in a lot of different ways！But the spelling and pronunciation of English are more difficult than in many other languages. We have a lot of s__3___in English, and the spelling isn’t very regular.

Nobody know e___4__ how many people are learning English in the world today, but it’s c__5___ more than it was 50 years ago. For example, fifty years ago very few people in China learned English, but now the n___6__ of people learning English in china is bigger than the population of the united states! So there are probably about 300 million people learning English at the m__7___，which is more than any other language, and some experts(专家) say that by the year