初中英语选词填空选词填空

选词填空。（每个空格1分，共10分）

kind, many, for, have, until, expensive, they, student ,leave ,go

In the United States, children start school when they are five years old. In some states they must stay in school    61   they are sixteen. Most students are seventeen or eighteen years old when they   62  high school. There are two  63   of school in the United States: public school and private school. Most children go to public schools. Their parents do not have to pay  64   their education because the schools receive money from the government. If a child  65 to a private（私立的） school, his parents  66   to pay enough money for his schooling. Some parents still choose private schools, though they are much more  67  .
Today about half of the high school  68  go to universities after they finish the high school. A student at a state university does not have to pay too m  69  if his parents live in this state.
But many students work while they are studying at universities. In this way they can have good working habits and live by 70  own  habits .

用方框中所给词的适当形式填空，有两项多余。

speak,  wear,  eat,  with,  is ,  run,  work,  are,  have,  talk,  play,  like

 
Mr. White is from the USA. He ____ our English teacher. His classes are very funny. We all ____ him. There_____ four people in Mr. White’s family: Mr. White , his wife and his two sons---Tom and Jim. Mrs. White can _____Chinese well, and she____ in a hospital( 医院). Tom and Jim are in our class. They are twins(双胞胎), but they are different. Tom is tall and he likes_______ blue T- shirts. Jim is short and he often wears black shirts. However(然而), they both _____ soccer well. After school, we often ____a soccer game. Sometimes, Mr. White plays ____ us. But he can’t _____ fast because he is too heavy. He plays soccer just for fun.

选择方框内的单词完成下列句子， 使句子通顺、正确。
A. knowledge  B. twentieth  C. largest  D.  written  E.  hungry  F uncomfortable.
Bruce is _______ , so he can’t go to school today .
He lives on the _______ floor . He uses a lift to go up and down.
China has the _______  population in the world .
The books _______ by Mr White are very interesting .
I’m not _______  , but I’m a little thirsty .
Our _______ of the universe is growing all the time .

短文填空：阅读短文，用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，每个单词限用一次（共10分）

Sports aren’t only for men. Amantle Montsho is one of the ___ women in the world.
Amantle Montsho was lovely_she was a child . She liked running ,but her classmates often _at her . Because women in her country didn’t like to run . But she never cared __that . She took part in (参加) a lot of ＿＿ and won . The Botswana National Sports Council( 博茨瓦纳国际体育委员会) had a meeting and asked her to join them .
At the age of 16 . Ms Montsho worked as a shop clerk (职员) . She spent her free time ___. And the council asked ____ to work on a program for two weeks a month . So she had to travel for 8 to 10 hours for it .
The short race were not the _fit (适合) for her . Then she started to run the 400-meter race . she __ the national record (全国记录) many times. She’s so ___ now. people think she is one of the most talented runners in the world .

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）

What’s the real meaning of the word “peace(和平,安宁)”? The   1 _ story may tell us something about it .
There was once a king who offered an award to an artist who could paint the   2 picture of peace .  _3  tried . The  king  looked at  all  the pictures .But there were only  two  he  really  liked  and  he had  to choose between the two .
One picture was a calm  lake .The lake was a perfect thing for peace  _4__ of the high  mountains  around it .Overhead was  a  blue sky with clouds .Anyone who saw this picture thought that  it was  a perfect picture of peace.
The other picture had mountains too . But they were rugged（高低不平） .Above was the dark sky, from which heavy rain fell . A waterfall was rushing down the side of the mountain . This did not look peaceful at all . But  when the king look __5__  ,he found behind the waterfall a very small bush  _6__ in  the middle of the waterfall and a mother bird sitting on her nest in perfect peace .
The king gave the award to the artist who  painted the __7_ picture . Why？
“because” , explained the king. “ peace doesn’t mean  __8_  in a place where there is no__9__ , no trouble or hard work” . Peace 10 in the midst of all those things, you’re still calm in you heart .This is the real meaning of peace.

Joe Brown has a very interesting job. He is a police artist. Some people see crimes and then talk to Joe. They tell him _________the criminal looks like. Then Joe draws a picture of the criminal， and the police put it in newspapers and on television to find him.
He wants to draw a good picture of each criminal， but this job is sometimes ____. Many people don’t always see things the same way _____ they may describe the same person ________. Also， they don’t always remember well. “The criminal _______ of medium height and young. He has long straight  brown hair and big eyes，” says one woman.  Another woman says， “ He is tall and thin， and he has curly blond hair. He’s about thirty years old. ”In the end， the real criminal is a short and heavy old man， and he has short black hair!

根据句意，从下面的方框中选择适当的短语，有些词语需要变形。

drop by , in order to , shake hands  , aim at , keep out

The rain coat is used for ___________ the rain .
The book __________ educating teenagers
___________ my home , when you have time .
You are supposed to ________ when you meet someone for the first time in China .
He studies hard ________ go to a good university .

选词填空。根据短文意思，用方框中所给词语的适当形式填空，使文章通顺、完整，并把所缺单词填写在答题卡指定的位置上。（每小题1分，共10分）

at, ask, what, winner, prize, be, difference, good, hardly, many

Life is not easy, so I'd like to say “When anything happens,(发生) believe in yourself!” When I was a young boy, I _____ too shy to speak to anyone. My classmates often laughed_____ me. I was sad but could do nothing. Later, something happened, and it changed my life. It was an English speech（演讲）competition. My mother _____ me to take part in（参加）it. _____ a terrible idea! It meant I had to speak before all the teachers and students of my school!
“Come on, boy. Believe in yourself! You are sure to _____.” Then mother and I talked about many ______ topics.（话题）At last I chose the topic “Believe in yourself”. I tried my _____ to remember all the speech and practiced it ______ than 100 times. With my mother's great love, I did well in the competition. I could ______ believe my ears when I heard that I had won the first _____ . I heard the cheers from the teachers and students. They all said congratulations （祝贺）to me.

短文填空（10个小题，每小题1分，共10分）
阅读短文，用方框内所给单词的正确形式填空，使短文意思通顺、完整。请将答案写在短文后相应题号的横线上。注意：①每个词只能用一次。②每空限填一词，有些词需要做相应的变化。③其中有两个多余选项。

invent   way   change   keep   give   our   with   old   new   is  create

 
What is creativity?
Creativity can help make something that didn’t exist(存在) before come into being. We can show our creativity in many  . We can invent something or  the way in which someone else looks at something.
In fact, all of us can  creative every day, because we changing our ideas about the things around us. Creativity isn’t just about developing something that is to the world; it is more about something that is new to  . As we change ourselves, the world changes     us.
What is creative thinking?
Creative thinking is the process that we use when we come up with a new idea. Brainstorming(集思广益)is one form of creative thinking. It by merging(结合)someone else’s ideas with your own to a new one. The process of creative thinking can be accidental or deliberate(故意的). So something can be  by people by accident when they suddenly have new ideas.

词语填空。用方框内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）。

she  take  play   other  under  child  river  with  so  can

 
It is a fine day. My friend Liu Fang and      two boys ask me to go to the river behind our school. Soon we get there. They are now swimming in it, but I     _ swim. There are many   __   there.
Some are flying kites. Some are playing games. Others are    photos. They are __  happily(高兴地). I’m sitting   a tree with a little girl. She is playing    a ball.   _  mother is reading not far away.
There are some nice flowers by the river. The girl goes to the   and wants to pick（摘）some, but she falls into（跌入）the water.
I call for help, but my friends can’t hear me.     I jump into the river. I don’t know how to swim, but I take the girl out of the water. When my friends know this, they say, “You can swim now.”

词语运用（10个小题，每个小题1分，共10分）
阅读短文，用方框内所给单词的正确形式填空，使短文意思通顺、完整。请将答案写在短文后相应题号的横线上。注意：①每个词只能用一次。②每空限填一词，有些词需要做相应的变化。③其中有两个多余选项。

tell  still  because  hot  last  example  in  ton  black  before  deep  on

 
Elephants are the largest living animals____ land. More than 500 different kinds of elephants have been found on earth during the __ 55 million years. Only two kinds are _____ alive today. The African Elephant and the Asian ( or Indian ) Elephant. These elephants can only be found in _____ places. The older kinds, which lived a long time ago, lived in colder places. An _____ is the mammoths----the largest hairy elephants. Mammoths were about the size of the largest living elephant, which is about seven _____. Unlike the elephants today, mammoths had _____ or dark brown hair covering their bodies. All the mammoths had tusks(象牙), and we can _____ this from their fossil teeth.
Scientists found out about most of the extinct（绝迹） animals by studying the fossils, such as their bones and teeth that have been found. However, mammoths are quite different.
During the Ice Age, mammoths died and were covered _____ in the ice. The ice kept them well. While many animals only left behind bones and teeth, scientists found the whole body of the mammoth. _____ the whole mammoth has been kept well, scientists can see even the hair, the tusks and the whole body.

选词填空。请从方框内选择适当的词语完成这封信。

Writing,  talking,  sitting ,  playing,  swimming , flying, sunny,  studying,  drawing,    having

 
Dear Bob,
My name is Rich .I’m fourteen years old .I’m_________ in a middle school .My school is nice and clean. There are 30 students in my class .It’s_______ today . My classmates and I are________ a good time on the beach .It’s a nice place .The water is blue and clear . Many birds are________ over the sea .Many people are ________ . Some boys are________ football . Some people are______ on the beach . A girl is_________  pictures on a chair .Another girl is _______ photos .I’m ________to you ! What are you doing ? I hope you can write to me soon .
Best wishes! Rich

词语运用（10个小题，每小题1分，共10分）
阅读短文，用方框内所给单词的正确形式填空，使短文意思通顺、完整。       请将答案写在短文后相应题号的横线上。注意：①每个词只能用一次。②每空限填一词，有  些词需要做相应的变化。③其中有两个多余选项。

opportunity difficulty  great  be  experience  pass  boring  different  volunteer  surprise   time   agree

 
Student life is not what it used to be. There are a lot of subjects to learn and different tests___. It’s not___ that students say they don’t have time to volunteer! However, volunteering isn’t as ____as you think.
There are lots of volunteering___. They allow you to do as much or as little as you choose. Times can be____ with the organizations. Many of them are grateful for even one hour a week.
Think about it, the time you give ___ always worth more in the long run. The effects to the community is much___ than the hours you give. For the example, if you spend an hour with a child helping them to read, it will make a great ____in his or her life.
And think of what volunteering can do for you; you will get ____and learn important skills in the _____work. A few hours in volunteering now will help you in the future.

短文填空（10个小题，每小题1分，共10分）
阅读短文，用方框内所给单词的正确形式填空，使短文意思通顺、完整。请将答案写在短文后相应题号的横线上。注意：①每个词只能用一次。②每空限填一词，有些词需要做相应的变化。③其中有两个多余选项。请选择适当的词语，将其正确的形式填入文章的空白处，每词限用一次。

The air we breathe is so freely available that we take it easily. Without it we could not survive more than a few     . For the most part, the same air is available to everyone, and everyone   it. Some people use the air to sustain(支撑) them while they sit around and feel sorry for   . Others breathe in the air and use the   it provides to make a magnificent life for themselves.
The opportunity is the same way. It is everywhere. The opportunity is so freely available that we take it for easily. Yet the opportunity alone is not enough to create  . The opportunity must be    and acted upon in order to have value（价值）. So many people are so anxious to get a "ground floor opportunity", as if the opportunity will do all the   . That’s  .
Just as you need air to breathe, you need the opportunity to  . You must make use of that opportunity. That’s not up to the opportunity. That’s up to you. It doesn’t matter what "floor" the opportunity is on. The thing matters is   you do with it.

短文填空（10个小题，每小题1分，共10分）
阅读短文，用方框内所给单词的正确形式填空，使短文意思通顺、完整。请将答案写在短文后相应题号的横线上。注意：①每个词只能用一次。②每空限填一词，有些词需要做相应的变化。③其中有两个多余选项。

never  arrive  foreign    each   dark    for   speak   say   to   time  slow  they

I like traveling around the world. Once I wanted to take a trip to London. I_______ in London at last. The railway station was big, black and _____. I did not know the way ____ my hotel, so I asked a man. I not only _____ English very carefully, but very clearly as well. The man, however, could not understand me. I repeated my question several ______ and at last he understood. He answered me, but he spoke neither ______ nor clearly. ‘I am a _______, ’ I said. Then he spoke slowly, but I could not understand him. My teacher ___ spoke English like that! The man and I looked at each other and smiled. Then he said something and I understood it. ‘You'll soon learn English!’ he said. I wonder. In England, ____ person speaks a different language. The English understand each other, but I don't understand ____! Do they speak English?