上海中考英语首字母填空练习

首字母填空练习Passage 1“Fire! Fire!” What horrible words to hear when one wakes up in a strange house in the middle of the night! It was a large, wooden house and my room was on the top floor. I jumped out of bed, opened the door and r___1____ into the passage. It was full of thick smoke.I began to run, but as I was still only half a___2____, instead of going towards the stairs I went in the opposite direction. The smoke grew thicker and I could see flames all around and the floor became hot under my bare feet. I found an open door and ran into a room to get to the window. But b___3____ I could reach it, one of my feet was caught in something soft and I fell down. The thing I had fell over was l___4____ a bundle（一捆）of clothes, and I picked it up to protect my face from smoke and h___5____. Just then the floor gave way under me and I crashed to the below with pieces of wood all around me.I saw a flaming doorway in front, put the bundle of clothes over my face and ran. The fire around my feet burned me t___6____, but I got through. As I reached the cold air outside, my bundle of clothes gave a thin cry. I nearly dropped it in my surprise. Then I saw a crowd gathered in the street. A woman in a night dress and a borrowed man’s coat screamed when she saw me and came running madly. “My baby! My baby!” she cried. The crowd cheered widely as she took the smoke bundle out of my arms. I had some difficulty in recognizing her. She was Mayor’s wife, and I had s___7____ her baby. I was a hero.1. rushed2. Awake3. Before4. Like5. Heat6. Terribly7. SavedPassage 2When Paul was a boy growing up in Utah, he happened to live near a copper smelter(炼铜厂)，and the chemicals that poured out had made a wasteland out of what u____1___ to be a beautiful forest. One day a young visitor looked at this wasteland and called it an awful area. Paul knocked him down. From then on, something happened i___2____ him.Years later Paul was back in the area, and he went to the smelter office. He asked if they had any plans or if they would let him try to bring the trees back. The a___3____ from that big industry was “No”.Paul then went to college to study the science of plants. He told the teachers about his plans. U___4____, his teachers said: “It will be a waste of your life to try to do it.” Everyone knew that, he was told. Even if he was knowledgeable as he had expected, he wouldn’t get his idea accepted.Paul later got married and had some kids. But his dream would not d___5____. And then one night he did what he could with what he had. Under the cover of darkness, he went secretly into the wasteland and started planting.Every week, he made his secret journey into the wasteland and planted trees and grass. For fifteen years he did this a____6___ the common sense. Slowly rabbits appeared. Later, the company actually hired Paul to do what he was already doing.Now the place is covered with fourteen thousand acres of trees and grass and bushes, and Paul has received almost every environmental award Utah has. It took him u___7____ his hair turned white, but he managed to keep that impossible promise he made to himself as a child.1. used2. Inside3. Answer4. Unluckily5. Die6. Against7. untilPassage 3Doctor Seuss was born in 1904. By the middle 1950s, he had become one of the best-loved and most s____1___ children’s book writers in the world. His books are very popular with young readers. They enjoy the invented words and the pictures of unusual funny animals and plants.In 1954, life magazine p___2____ a report about school children who could not read. The report said many children’s books were not interesting. Doctor Seuss strongly hoped to help children and decided to write books that were interesting and easy to read. He used words with the s___3____ ending sound, like fish and wish. He did not receive training in art. Yet, he drew the pictures for most of his books.In 1957, Doctor Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat. He used less than 230 words to write the book and even a six-year-old should be able to read it. It was a fun story and easy to read. Children loved it. Their parents loved it, too. Today it is still one of the stories they like best. The success of The Cat in the Hat m___4____ him want to write more books for children. In 1960, he wrote a book using less than fifty words. The book is called Green Eggs and Ham.In 1984, Doctor Seuss won a Pulitzer Prize(普利策奖). He was honored f___5____ the education and enjoyment his books provided American children and their parents.He died at the age of 87, but his influence remains. Millions of his books have been sold worldwide. People say his books helped change the w___6____ American children learned to read. Yet, his books are loved by people of all ages. Doctor Seuss once said, “I do not write for child ren. I___7____, I write for people.”1. successful2. Published3. Same4. Made5. For6. Way7. InsteadPassage 4When you are learning English, listening, speaking and writing are important, but reading can also be very helpful. When you ready you can not only learn some new words, but also you can learn how to use these English words. When you read, it gives you a good example for writing. Here are the good reading s___1____.Try to read at the right level. Read something that you can (more or less) understand. If you need to s___2____ every three words to use a dictionary, it is not interesting.Try to increase the number of your new words. If there are four or five new words on a page, write them in your notebook. But you don't have to write them while you read. I___3____, try to guess their meaning as you read: mark them with a pen. Then come back when you have finished reading to look them up in a dictionary and write them in your own vocabulary book. Then try to remember them.Try to read regularly. For example, read for a short time once a day. Fifteen minutes every day is better than two hours every Sunday. Fix a time to read and k 4 to it. You could read for fifteen minutes when you go to bed, or when you get up or at lunchtime.Read what i____5___ you. Choose a book or a magazine about a subject that you like, because you are going to spend time and money reading it. So, choose an interesting book. You can also read n___6____, such as 21st Century Teens. It is easy e___7____ for you to understand it. There is something interesting in it.1. skills2. Stop3. Instead4. keep5. Interests6. newspapers7. EnoughPassage 5When you cut your skin, you bleed. If a person loses a lot of blood, he will become ill andmay die. Blood is very important. People have always known that. At one time, some people e___1____ drank blood to make them strong!When doctors understand how blood goes around i___2____ the body, they try ways of giving blood to people who need it. They take blood from the healthy people and give it to people who need it. This is called "blood transfusion" (输血). The blood goes from the arm of the healthy person into the arm of the s___3____ person.But there are two problems. First, it does not always w___4____. Sometimes people die when they have blood transfusion. Later, doctors find that we do not all have the same kind of blood. There are four groups—O, A, B and AB. We all have blood of one of these groups. They also find that they can give any kind of blood to people of group AB. But they find that they must give A-group blood to A-group people and B-group blood to B-group people. I have O-group blood and the doctor told me that I could give blood to anyone else safely.There is a___5____ problem. To give blood of the right kind, doctors have to find a person of the right blood group. Often they can not find a person in time. If they have a way to keep the blood u___6____ someone needs it, they can always have the right kind of blood. At first they find they can keep it in bottles for fifteen to twenty days. They do this by making it very cold. Then they find how to keep it l___7____. In the end they find a place to keep blood for a very long time—"blood bank".1. even2. Inside3. Sick4. Work5. Another6. Until7. longerPassage 6Children in the UK must r____1____ a full-time education until they are sixteen. If they do not attend school, a government official will visit their home to ask why, and their parents might e____2____ be punished. Parents can send their children to state schools, where tuition and textbooks are free, or public schools, where a fee is required. Most parents choose state schools for their children.The school year begins in September and c____3____ of three terms. There are three main holidays. These holidays take place at Christmas, Easter and in the summer. The summer holiday is the longest and usually l____4____ from the middle of July to the beginning of September. There are also two half-term holidays.Education is split into two main stages—primary school and secondary school. Primary schools are for students from age five to eleven. The subjects taught are maths, English, history, science, art, music, and PE. Secondary schools are for students from the age of eleven to sixteen, a____5____ some schools offer classes to students until they are eighteen. The same m____6____ subjects are taught as well as additional subjects such as economics, foreign languages (usual French or German), drama, technology, and computer studies.Three important public e____7____ are taken at the ages of eleven, sixteen and eighteen. After the age of sixteen, students can either find a job or go on to study in a sixth-form college(第六级学院). Most students study for A Levels in six-form colleges, and go to university when they complete them.1. receive2. Even3. Consists4. Lasts5. Although6. Main7. ExamsPassage 7How much pocket money do you get from your parents each week? Is the amount growing in recent years? If it is, then you are l____1____ than the kids in Britain. According to the reports, they are getting less and less pocket money.British researchers did a survey of 1,204 children between 8 and 15 years old. They f___2_____the average amount of pocket money for British kids was about 5.89 pounds (62 yuan) a week in 2010. In 2009, it was 6.24 pounds (66yuan). The 2010 number is the l____3____ since 2003. In 2003, parents gave their children an average of 5.79 pounds (61 yuan) a week.However, children are not too worried about it, according to the survey. A____4____ half of them believe they get the right amount. Only 42 percent say they would like to have more pocket money.Most kids like to compare their pocket money with their friends. In the survey, 37 percent believe their friends get more money than they do.A____5____ they are receiving less pocket money than before, most British kids still keep the good habit of saving, according to the survey.Ten percent say they save all their pocket money. Twenty-five percent say they save at least half. Thirty-five percent say they will save money to buy something they r___6_____ want."It is good to d____7____ the habit of saving at a young age," said Flavia Palacios Uman. one of the researchers. "Y ou will benefit(受益) l________ in life because your savings will add up over time."1. Luckier2. found3. Lowest 3. Almost4. Although5. Really6. develop7. later。