初中英语短文填空试题

阅读短文，根据短文内容及首字母提示，在空白处填入一个适当的单词。
One day a farmer’s donkey (驴) fell down a well (井). The animal cried for hours as the farmer tried to find a way to get it out. Finally, he d____86____ to give up the animal, because it was very old and the well needed to be covered up.
He invited all of his neighbours to come and help him. They all began to fill the well w____87____ dirt (泥土). The donkey realized what was h____88____ and began to cry. Then, to everyone’s surprise, it became quiet.
A few minutes l____89____, the farmer finally looked down the well. He was a____90____ at what he saw. With each shovel (铲) of the dirt that hit its b____91____, the donkey shook it off and took a step up.
As the farmer’s neignbours went on to shovel dirt on top to the animal, he s____92____ shook it off and took a step up. Pretty soon, the donkey h____93____ got out.
Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. E____94____ of our troubles is stepping stone. You can g____95____ out of the deepest well just by not stopping and never giving up! Shake (摇) it off and take a step.

用括号中所给词的正确形式填空，必要时可加助动词或情态动词。（共10小题，每小题2分）
Welcome back, everyone! Now, because it’s a new term, I _________ (give) you some advice. You should ________ (read) some English every day. It’s good for your vocabulary. It’s also a good idea __________ (check) your vocabulary notebook every day. Why don’t you ________ (write) down the correct spelling and grammar next to the mistakes? How about ___________ (listen) to the radio or __________ (read) a newspaper in English? But try ___________ (not translate) every word. Remember ____________ (make) friends and write email messages to them. Don’t forget __________ (watch) English films, and talk about them with your friends, this is a great way ____________ (learn) English!

缺词填空（根据短文内容及首字母提示，填入所缺单词）（共10空，每空1分，满分10分）
Many books have been written about “the art of giving”. But what about the art of r  1 ? Sometimes, receiving a gift can be difficult, especially when someone buys you a gift you don’t want!
“I remember when I was about twelve years old, my parents b  2  me a purple purse,” laughs Guo Xiaojing. “It really made me feel embarrassed(尴尬), because I thought the purse was really ugly！Still, I pretended (假装)that I liked it b  3  I knew it would make my parents happy!”
Han Ling agrees. “That sounds like my grandparents！A few years ago, my grandparents gave me an orange sweater f  4  my birthday. I used to wear it every time I visited them, but when I left their house, I took it off! Of course, this made me feel g  5 . It was a very nice thought, but my grandparents have different taste from me! I think it’s hard to buy clothes or other personal things for people.”
To make things easier, some people would rather just give money. In some cultures, h  6  , receiving money can make people uncomfortable. “When someone gives me money, it j   7   makes me think they’re being lazy,” says John Wilson. “In England, we have a saying: It’s the thought that counts. When s   8   gives me money, I feel they don’t think at all. I prefer to receive a gift that has some thought behind it. I don’t mind if it’s something I don’t need. If someone has thought about a g   9  for me, it always makes me happy.”
Different people have very different thoughts on this subject! So maybe the art of receiving is e 10  more difficult than the art of giving! What do you think?

下面是一些同学对课外活动的看法，请仔细阅读下列短文，按信息卡内容要求填入相关信息。
Mike Smith: We have many after-class activities in school—English corner, hand-writing lessons, playing basketball, playing chess, dancing and so on. Students in our school can choose any kind of activities they like.
Jane White: I’m a member of the music club in our school. I can learn different kind of music instruments. It’s fun.
Frank Green: I take park in drawing and English corner after class. I benefit a lot from the activities. I can not only improve my abilities of drawing and spoken English, but also make some new friends who have the same hobbies as me.
Amy young: Some teachers think after-class activities take up too much time. But as a student, I think it’s necessary for schools to give us the chance to improve our other abilities after class. We are under great pressure with too much homework and exams. We need time to relax.
Information card

Kinds of after-class activities	1 , hand-writing lessons, playing basketball,   2 , dancing, instrument playing and   3
Advantages of after-class activities	●a good chance to improve students’ other abilities ●a good chance to  4   ●to help students to   5

Nowadays, too much carbon dioxide makes the earth warmer and warmer and causes terrible effect to human beings. To save our planet and ourselves, a new lifestyle called low-carbon life becomes popular. Low carbon means low energy and no waste. It is necessary for everybody to learn to live a low-carbon life.
To live a low-carbon life, we’d better save energy as much as possible. Turn off the lights and TV whenever they are not needed. If possible, use cold water to wash clothes or dishes. Take a short shower and try to take a cold one when the weather gets warm. Don’t do the cooking with electricity.
To live a low-carbon life, we should eat less meat. Everybody knows eating too much meat makes people fat and easy to have heart disease, but maybe you don’t know keeping animals for food produces even more carbon dioxide than all the cars in the world, and being a vegetarian (素食主义者) can help reduce one and a half tons of carbon dioxide a year. Maybe it is a little difficult, but it’s really necessary.
To live a low-carbon life, we are supposed to do less shopping. When we go shopping, we may drive a car or take other transportations (交通工具). On one hand, these machines pollute the air and waste energy. On the other hand, most of us always buy some useless things because of some advertisements. It not only waste money but also causes trouble to the earth, because making everything will produce carbon dioxide more or less.
There are many other ways to live a low-carbon life, such as recycling things, planting trees and reusing textbooks. If we can keep it a habit in our daily life, the earth will become a safer planet for us to live on.
任务一：根据短文内容，用简洁的句子或短语完成下列表格。

Advice	How to Live a Low-Carbon Life
Advice 1	﹡ 1.
Advice 2	﹡ 2.
Advice 3	﹡ Take a short shower and try to take a cold one when it’s warm.
Advice 4	﹡ 3.
Advice 5	﹡ 4.
Advice 6	﹡ Be supposed to do less shopping.
Advice 7	﹡ Recycle things, plant trees and reuse textbooks.

任务二：除了文中提到的建议外，你一定还有许多自己的想法，请写一条与大家分享吧。
﹡ 5.                                                                                    

根据短文内容和首字母的提示，把所缺单词填写在短文后面的横线上。
Robot s  70  are not just trying to make robots look like people. For example, there are already robots w  71   in factories. These robots look more like huge arms. They do simple jobs over and over again. People would not like to do such jobs and would get bored. But robots will never get bored. In the future, there will be more robots e  72   , and humans will have l73        work to do. New robots will have many different shapes. Some will look like humans, and others might look like snakes. After an earthquake, a snake robot could help look for people under b  74  . That may not seem possible now, but computers, space rockets and even electric toothbrushes seemed i   75    a hundred years ago. We never know what will happen in the future.

Going on holidays is best choice for the Europeans to relax themselves, especially in the UK. However, much has changed during the past decades(几十年).
One of the most traditional British holidays was the “seaside holiday”. Families got on a train or into a car and traveled to seaside towns nearby to sunbathe on the beach, buy ice-creams and eat fish and chips and so on.
In the late 1970s, more and more British people started traveling to other countries in Europe for their summer holidays (July-August) because the weather wasn’t very good, even in summer. The “package holiday” was particularly popular with most families.
In the 1980s and 1990s, young people in the UK became wealthier, so many of them traveled to countries all over the world for their holidays.
These years, especially after the world financial crisis(金融危机), most British people can not afford to spend their holidays abroad. They again begin to choose to stay in their own home and go on a few day trips rather than spending money on hotels. They call this sort of vacation a “staycation”.
任务：请阅读上面短文，根据短文内容完成下面表格中的有关信息。

Time	Kind of holiday	Reason
Before the late 1970s	________	It was a tradition.
In the late 1970s	Package holiday	______
__________	Overseas holiday	Young people became wealthier.
These years	________	The world financial crisis.

请认真阅读下面短文，在短文后表格中的空白处填入适当的单词(注意：每空1个单词)。
CCTV cameras watch action

In UK , Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras are everywhere. They help the police solve crimes and keep the streets safe. But that’s not all they do . They also catch people doing very stupid or smart things.
One of the videos is of a British woman Mary Bale. She clearly doesn’t like cats. In 2010 she was caught on CCTV throwing one into a dustbin. The video shows Mary walking down a quiet street. All of sudden , she notices Lola the cat jump onto a fence. Mary stops to pickup Lola and drops her into a large dustbin . Lola was saved fifteen hours later. And Mary was arrested for causing unnecessary suffering to an animal . She was fined ( 罚款)￡250  and was not allowed to own pets for five years.
Another video shows “ Britain’s drunkest man” . He’s been at a party at London’s Savoy Hotel. And he’d obviously had a few too many glasses of beer. At about 2 a. m. , he was kicked out for being too drunk . So, he decided to walk home. On the way , CCTV cameras filmed him falling down stairs and crossing the roads madly… A Savoy Hotel waiter said, “ It’s amazing he didn’t hurt himself badly.”
Sometimes they also record smart events. Once a British band The Get Out Clause didn’t have any money to make a music video. So , they came up with an unbelievable idea. They set up their instruments ( 乐器) and played a song in front of eight CCTV cameras. And then, according to the English Freedom of Information Act , they asked for a copy of all the footages ( 视频) , which they edited. The result is that a totally new music video was made, and it didn’t cost them a penny.
Title: CCTV cameras catch action

Passage outline	Supporting details
Usage of CCTV cameras	They are almost (1)______________ and are used in many ways.
To help the police solve crimes	A woman saw a lonely cat and (2) ___________ it into a big dustbin. She was fined ￡250 and was not allowed to own pets for five years.
To catch people doing stupid things	A man got very drunk and was thrown out of London’s Savoy Hotel. He went back home through a lot of troubles and dangers but was not (3) ________________hurt.
To (4)____________ people doing Smart events	A band had no money but still wanted to make a music record. They played in front of eight CCTV cameras and asked for the footage copy for (5) ___________________. They edited the footages and make a totally new music video.

根据短文内容及首字母提示，补全空格内单词，使短文完整、通顺。（请在答题卡上写出完整单词 ）

Some years ago, I went to Australia for a meeting with my friend, Chris. We decided to drive across the country to Brisbane after the meeting ended. The drive was going to take four days and most of it was across the desert, so we had to take food, water, and extra gas(汽油) w  1  us.
The first day was a lot of fun as we were excited and laughing at each other’s jokes. By the third day of driving in the seemingly endless desert, we began to get b  2 . We had been quiet for a few hours when Chris found some kangaroos in the distance. We were b  3  excited and decided to get a closer look. Chris speeded up to
c  4  up with the kangaroos. We got closer and closer, and Chris was doing 110 kilometers per hour. We were very close to the kangaroos—too close—when we heard a loud BANG!
Chris s  5  the car and we got out. Behind the car was a larger kangaroo l  6  completely quiet on the ground. Chris went over to the kangaroo and put his baseball cap on its h  7 . He took off his sunglasses and put them on the kangaroo and did the same with his jacket. Then he put his arm a  8  the kangaroo and told me to take a photo of them together. I was still surprised, but I took out my c___9___. While I was ready to take photos, I saw the kangaroo move. It suddenly woke up, looked at Chris, and jumped away into the distance before we could do anything.
I started laughing but Chris looked very serious. He said his wallet and passport were in the jacket. I started laughing even harder. I stopped laughing, h  10 , when he said that our car keys were also in the jacket!

阅读短文，根据短文内容完成表格
Today, I’ll make three bowls of noodles. The large one is for my father. I’ll put a tomato and two eggs in it. My mother will have a medium bowl. I’ll put some chicken and some potatoes in it. And I’ll make the small one for myself. I’d like mutton in it. Now let we begin my work.

WHO	What’s in it?	What else?
Father	1________________	Large
2.__________	Some chicken and some potatoes.	3____________
I	4.________________	5.___________

根据短文内容完成句子
Newspapers and televisions often present the bad side of life to us. Life is, however, not so bad. The world is, on the whole, full of kind people and friendly strangers. Recently, a tourist in France was given a bunch of roses by a gardener as a token（标记）of friendship. In California, when a tourist’s car was badly damaged, a man who came by offered to tow（拖）the car to a repair shop. The repairman was so nice that he not only charged（收费）the tourist very little, but lent him a car to drive while he was repairing the tourist’s car. We can say that if you are friendly and expect to meet friendly people, you will most certainly meet them.
In California,          let the         use his own car when his car was damaged.
We get a wrong impression and the bad side of life from          .
         is taken from the garden as a token of          .
We can be sure that being          brings you friendship.
This passage mainly tells us that the world          .

阅读短文，根据短文内容填写表格，将信息补充完整。每空不超过三个单词。
Co-operation(合作) is always needed when you make a project that the teacher gives you.
First, discuss all you would like to do with your classmates. Choose one of the members to write down what you’re talking about. Then, with the ideas you get, list all you want. Everyone shares the duty for the project. You can collect information not only from books but also on the Internet. Making a survey and doing a research are also good ways. After that, all the members put what has been found together. Try to make the project more well-organized. In the end, you can give a report in front of your class to show the results of your hard work.

You need when you make a project.
How to do it?	·First, with your classmates and choose one member towhat you’re talking about. ·Second, collect and list all you want. Making a survey and doing aare also good ways. ·After that, put what has been found together and make the project more well-organized. ·In the end, show the results of your hard work by giving a

阅读下面短文，用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空（必要时可加助动词或情态动词）
The largest problem among teenagers is that they are too stressed. Mary, a 26-year-old girl,         
1.(worry) about her exams very often. Although she        2.(study) English for three years, and is good at it, she is still afraid of English exams. Last night, after       3.(come) back home, she      4.(begin) to get ready for her English exam. While she         5.(read) English books, her mother said to her, “Come on, dear! It’s time          6.(.have) supper!” But Mary                                                  
  7.(not listen) to her mother. She went on reading. Her mother went on, “Mary, I believe you. You can pass your exam tomorrow.” But Mary still went on studying. At 11:30 the light in her room          8. ( be )still on. Her mother said to her, “I think teenagers           9.(go) to bed earlier before exams than usual.” Mary agreed, but she          10.(not fall)asleep. She was too nervous. Maybe it is time to solve the teenagers’ problems.

根据句意及首字母提示完成短文
An old woman o　　  1.her window and looks out of it. The sun shines b   　2.There’s a man in the g　　  3. in front of her house. The old woman looks at him and says, “He is eating g　  　4.!”
She goes o　 　5.and asks the man, “Why are you eating grass? Are you h　     6.?”The man says, “Yes, I am very poor. I have n　   　7.for my breakfast today and I am hungry now.”The old woman tells him to go to the b　    8.door of her house, and she goes in again. The man s　    9.and goes to the back door of the house. Then the old woman opens the door and says to the man,“The grass here is l　    　10.”

One day, John 1.                    after work. He saw his wife shaking their daughter who was only half a year old. She said Da-Dy to the baby many times. John felt very happy because he thought his wife chose the word “Dady” to 2.                 first. During one night several weeks later, John and his wife 3.                      by the cry Dady. His wife said to him, “Darling, she is calling you.” Then she turned to sleep.