初中英语选词填空试题

根据短文内容，用方框中所给词语的适当形式填空，使文章通顺，完整。（每词限用一次）

child  time   in   good   ready  begin pass  quickly  themselves  for  if  hard

Each year, thousands of Chinese middle school students go to study in foreign countries such as the U S, the UK, Australia and Japan.
"Chinese  hope very much to go abroad to get a wider view(视野) of the world," said Li Mingshan, a Chinese writer who has lived   America for many years. In a talk Li told more than 300 parents and their children that life in foreign countries can be  for young people. "They have to meet a culture shock and language problems.”
However, these are not the most difficult things. To most children, looking after when studying alone in a foreign country is a big challenge(挑战).
Zhao Baohua, a 16-year-old student   to study in a high school in Australia las t October. To his surprise, his teachers there hardly pushed students to study. And usually there wasn't homework. "With these education systems, we have more free   and more space for thinking," said Zhao. "But   you don't know how to plan your time and money, you will not have an easy time." Some of his friends spent their whole year's money in the first two months of the term, and they didn't   their exams.
"Studying abroad at a young age can help students learn foreign languages  , but students and parents should know about the challenges," Li said. "If you want to study abroad, try to talk to someone with experience in foreign countries. Make sure that you are   for it. "

根据短文内容，从下面方框中选择适当的短语填空，使短文内容完整正确。

Since last winter, the smog has occurred a lot of times in China. It has done great harm to our daily life. Many traffic accidents happened just   the heavy smog weather. Many coaches and planes had to be  . In Nanjing, all primary and middle schools and kindergarten classes    as heavy smog hit the city. People have realized  protecting the environment. People all over the country are taking measures to reduce the smog weather. The government suggests people go to work or school  , such as the bus and the underground. Also we should plant more trees.

根据短文内容，从下面方框中选择适当的短语填空，使短文内容完整正确。

President Xi Jinping came to the Qing Feng Steamed Dumpling Shop for lunch on December 28th, 2013. Since then, the set meal of the president has been popular in China. Sun, a 33-year-old soldier, could have been home on Monday if he had        from Weifang, Shandong province. He would go       to Liaoning province. But he chose to change trains in Beijing with his five boxes. Sun arrived at the shop at about noon to join a line        50 meters long. After waiting for nearly half an hour, he took his "president's meal". Then Sun joined another line to wait for a chance to sit in Xi's seat and have his photo taken there. Sun then quickly moved to another table because of         people who were waiting for their turns to be photographed at Xi's table. "The greatest honor I had during my stay in Beijing was to have a set meal of the president," he said. After getting one more photo of himself in front of the shop, Sun       to the train station.

根据对话内容，从下面方框中选择适当的单词或短语填空，使对话内容完整正确

A: Hi, Lisa. Do you know that people are talking about the future dreams a lot these days?
B: Yes. That’s a hot topic     .
A: Do you have a plan for the future? I mean what your dream is.
B: Yes. I have a lot of dreams. But the greatest one is that I want to be a teacher.
A: Sounds nice. But how are you going to do that?
B: Well, I’m going to study hard and do well in all the     .
A: Anything more?
B: And I’m going to play more sports to     .
A: Where are you going to work?
B: I’m going to work in a village school in the poor area. I hear they need teachers very much. I think to be a village school teacher is very great.
A: That    ! But when are you going to start?
B: I am going to finish high school and college first.
A: That’s good. I hope your dream will     .
B: I hope so. Thank you.

根据对话内容，从下面方框中选择适当的单词或词组填空，使对话内容完整正确。

held，   be in use,   open,    but also,   improve

The Nanjing government is actively preparing for the coming Summer Youth Olympic Games, said the leader of the city. The event, which will be   from Aug 16 to 28, is not only a great chance for the city to carry out its development project, helps to develop the Olympic spirit and spread the importance of sports among Chinese youth, he added.
Nanjing won the bid in 2010 to host the 2014 games. Every four years, the event is  to players from 15 to 18 years old. “Hosting a huge event like this requires proper buildings, services and so on,” he said. “We want to use this chance to   ourselves.”
The city's transport system has been made better to meet the expected need from the event. Nanjing underground Line 10 will   in the near future. The total underground length will then have grown from 80 to 180 kilometers. At the same time, 1,400 new taxis and 2,530 buses will join the services as well.

阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。请将答案填写在答题卡的相应位置。每空限填一词，每词限用一次。方框中有两个词是多余的。

Electricity is of great   to our life. What would life be like without electricity? “That’s terrible!” most people would say. But it’s life in Ethiopia.
When I was in that country, the power went off  every few days. This happened not only in small towns, even in the capital.
One day when I went to the airport, the power was  . I didn’t know which flight to take. At the same time, the Internet was of course   The weather was very hot. To my , restaurants only served warm drinks. Time after the sunset, between 6:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., was  . Without any light, I stayed in my room, walking or   in bed. How boring!
I wondered what I would get into if there was no power in America. So I had a try. At 8:30 a.m., I turned off the power. Then I nothing but rest at home. Things were not so difficult because it was summer and the sun didn’t set until 8:00 p.m. I’ll try this again in winter, and I hope to learn what I can do without electricity.

选择方框中的动词词组，并用其适当形式填空。

_____________ your health because you are not strong .
We are _______________ seeing each other soon.
Don ’ t forget __________ the lights when you go out.
They should _________￥25 ________ the cartoon book.
We must ____________ to help those poor students.

阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的单词填空（每词限用一次）。

Do you like elephants? Elephants are __________________ animals. They can play soccer or music. They can _______________ draw very well. People say that “an elephant never forgets”. Elephant can walk _______________ a long time and never get lost. They can also remember places with_______________ and water. This helps them to live. But elephants are in great dangerous. People cut down trees so elephants are losing their homes. People also kill elephants for their ivory.
Today there are only about 3,000 elephants (over100,000 before) We must save the trees and not buy things. _______________ of ivory(象牙).

先阅读短文，掌握其大意。然后从方框中所给的词中选出恰当的10个，并用其适当形式填空，每个词限用一次。（每小题1分）
something,  write, when, gift, understand, member,          
birthday,  lucky,  easy, like,  different,  secret.            
If your birthday is coming, what presents will your parents buy for you? It's not      for Chinese parents to choose a birthday present for their children. Many American parents also have the same problem .But       they have got American girl—an American company. It is famous for its beautiful dolls. Though there are many famous dolls in the world. American girl dolls are becoming one of the most popular birthday       for girls.
What makes American girl dolls so popular among girls ? The       is in her matching (相配的)hair, skin, eye color, clothing and so on. That is to say, there are       kinds of dolls for buyers to choose and the dolls look     their owners. The company hopes their dolls can make girls     that it is OK to be different from others.
The company gives each American girl doll her own name and special background. They also invite writers to      books about her. The stories in the books are mainly about different periods of American history. So       the girls are playing with their dolls, they can get a lot of fun and they can learn      about history, too. "

用方框中所给词语的适当形式填空，使文章完整、通顺。（每词限用一次）

answer, alone, oldest, start, until, fortieth,own, teach, money, later

In Britain you are allowed to drive a car when you are seventeen. You have to get a special two—year driving license before you can         . When you are learning, someone with a full license always has to be in the car with you because you aren't allowed to drive the car on the road       . You don't have to go to a driving school—a friend can_       you. The person with you isn't allowed to take the_         for the lesson unless he's got a teacher's license.
Before you are allowed to have a full license, you have to take a driving test. You can take a test in your
         car, but it has to be fit for the road. In the test you have to drive round for about half an hour and then         a few questions. If you don't pass the test, you are allowed to take it again a few weeks
        if you want to. In 1970 a woman passed her           test after 212 driving lessons. When you've passed your test, you don't have to take it again, and you are allowed to go on driving as long as you like. Britain's         driver was a man who drove in 1974 at the age of 100.
Before 1904 everyone was allowed to drive, even children. Then from 1904 car drivers had to have a license. But they didn't have to take a test        1935. On the early days of car driving, before 1878, cars weren't allowed to go faster than four miles an hour, and someone had to lead the car with a red flag.

A.mark   B. checked  C. population   D. destroyed  E.chemicals

In Tanzania, an African country, a company called APOPO trains African pouched rats(非洲有袋鼠）to find landmines(地雷）left over from the wars. The rats are trained to smell out some of the___  in them. More importantly, these rats are too light to set off the landmines.
Generally speaking, after 8 to 12 months of training, the rats can find landmines so that they can be safely destroyed. Rats and trainers search one small area at a time. To be sure that every inch of the ground is __, APOPO workers use a harness-and-rope system that guides the rats back and forth in rows. The trainer stands safely on the edge(边缘) of the area.
When a rat smells landmines, it will dig the dirt in that spot(地点). The trainers ___ each spot on a map. Later, people set off the landmines safely.
In the African country of Mozambique, nearly half of the _____ are younger than 15 years old. A lot of kids are in danger as they play and work. With the help of the rats and trainers, there will be no threat any more.

Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each word can only be used once（将下列单词或词组填入空格, 每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次。）:（共8分）

A. believed  B. situation  C. close to D. technology  E. search for

   Two teenage girls are missing after they failed to return to their school camp in a Victorian National Park _____ the New South Wales border last night.
The police began to ____ the girls, aged 14 and 15. They are students at Melbourne School and were in the area as part of a school camp. The girls were last seen at about 4:30 pm yesterday and did not return for dinner at 6 pm.
“They were ______ to be wearing lightweight clothing. It has rained in the area for three days and the police are worried about their ____. Search and Rescue police will arrive in the area immediately to coordinate(协调）a full-scale search,” said the spokeswoman.

用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文通顺、正确、连贯 (每个单词限用一次)。

then;   do;  ;   right;   show;   different;   who;   late;   easy;  memory

Did your parents make you take music lessons? Recent research has     that people who studied music as a child are able to remember words much better than people     musical training. One experiment was   with sixty female American college students. A similar study was carried out with ninety boys in Hongkong of China. In both cases, students had to  words and pictures.    they were asked how many they remembered. Scientists found that students    studied music were better at remembering words, but both groups remembered the pictures equally well. Perhaps it is   to use your imagination to associate(联想) pictures with things in your life. Also, you can make up stories for pictures.
Scientists explain the     by saying that both musical memory and verbal (written or spoken words) memory are located in the left side of the brain. Visual memory, the kind needed for pictures, is located in     half of the brain. Since verbal memory is very important for success at school, researchers now think that taking music lessons can give you a real academic advantage. In fact, when the students were tested a year    , the students who had stopped taking lessons still did well on verbal memory. Maybe it’s time to give music lessons a try.

阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的单词填空。

themselves      lions      sad      in      food

Many people may think that animals in the zoo are happy and lucky, but most of them are__________. Do you know why?  Animals like tigers, ____________ and bears usually live in forests or mountains. They run, jump, play with their children and find small animals for____________. But now they have to stay in small rooms ____________ the zoo. They don’t have to find food by ____________ because the zookeepers feed them.

选择方框内所给词的适当形式填空。

be,  we,  meet,  stop,  wonder

Dear Dennis,
We just want to say thank you for having us before we caught the plane last week. It was a nice evening, and we enjoyed __ Peter and Sarah. With your help we were able to get to the airport with plenty of time. We often tried to get an  earlier flight (航班) than usual, but it wasn't possible.
We had a __ holiday in Spain (西班牙). We just loved driving through the countryside, and we often __ to walk round a mountain village. We met ___ friends, Bill and Sue, and they invited us to have a meal with them. They wanted us to stay with them. But we couldn't, as we had already booked (预定) two rooms in a hotel. 
The weather was nice. There __ so much beautiful sunshine all time we were there. Leaving Spain was very sad. It made me want to cry.
Anyway, we are looking forward to hearing from you, and hope to see you soon. Let me know if you're ever in the area.  You must call in.
Yours,
Ray