初中英语选词填空试题

用方框内所给词的适当形式完成下面短文。（每词限用一次）

metre      be        build         until        nervous

The sun was going down when we arrived at the ground floor of the building. I was afraid of going to the top of tall buildings, so I was a little       when I walked into a lift. The lift climbed faster and faster      we reached the 88th floor. It       high up there, but I was not afraid when I stood at the top.
The Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai is 420.5    high. It is one of the tallest buildings in the world. It     in 1999, and it has a fantastic view of Pudong District and the centre of Shanghai. I really like t he tower and I am sure I will visit it again.

step	voung	look	when	he	top
mountain	clear	come	quick	year	reach

You are never too young to start doing things. Do you believe it?
Jordan Romero, a 13—year—old cute boy from California, got a new record by the top of Mount Qomolangma at the end of last month. He has become the  person to climb the world's highest mountain. At the of the mountain, he was excited to call  very cute. He began climbing mountains   he was nine years old. "I have been. climbing mountains for four years. Every  I take is toward the biggest goal of my life, to stand on top of the world, " Jordan once said on his blog.
Jordan had never climbed above 8 , 000 meters before. Thanks to the  weather he and his team climbedto the top. His father, climbing with Jordan, said he wanted nothing more than to make his son's dreams true.
Now, Jordan hopes to arrive at Antarctical "It's a piece of cake for him, " his mother said.

when    like   falling    used   more  cuts air     study   so   save  much  how

 
Nowadays more and more people care about the exploitation (开采） of the natural resources, such as oil. The_______ oil we use, the less these will be left for the future. Oil can be _______in many ways and it’s difficult to imagine what the modern world will be  _____ without oil. But oil isn’t easy to find and get out of the earth. Men must _______ the rocks, _______they think the rocks in a certain place may have oil, a metal tower is built. A machine in the tower  ______ a hole down into the ground. At the same time , a steel pipe （钢管） is pushed down to stop the sides from  ______ in and to keep out water. At last if the men are right, usually the oil rushes up high into the  _____. If the oil catches a light , there will be a terrible fire, ______a kind of cover is fixed on the top of the pipe. And the oil can run out through taps( 活塞）. Today the price of oil keeps rising all the time. In many countries, the governments encourage people to ____oil as much as possible.

阅读下面短文，用方框中所给词的适当形式填空。使短文意思完整、通顺。每空一词。

he   truth   work   mean    big    block    believe    sudden    remember    find

More recently, most Americans remember what they were doing when the World Trade Center in New York was taken down by terrorists. It is one of the ____ events in American history. Even the date—September 11, 2001—has ____ to most Americans.
This was a day will never forget. In May 2001, he ____ a job in the World Trade Center. On September 11, 2001, he arrived at his building at around 8:30 a.m. He was about to go up when he decided to get a coffee first. He went to his favorite coffee place even though it was two _____ east from his office. As he was waiting in line with other office _____, he heard a loud sound. Before he could join the other people outside to see what was going on, the first plane had already hit his office building. They stared in ___ at the black smoke rising above the burning building. He felt lucky to be alive.
Kate Smith will never forget the date, too. Now she still ____ working in her office near the two towers. “My friend Mike shouted ___ that a plane just hit the World Trade Center! I didn’t believe ____ at first. But then I looked out of the window and realized that it was ___. I was scared and I could hardly think clearly after that.”
September 11, 2001—the date alone means something to most people in the US.

选词填空：阅读下面材料，用方框中所给单词的适当形式在空白处填空，每词限用一次，请将完整的单词填写在答题卡对应的横线上，没空只能填一词。（ 10小题，每小题1分，共10分 ）

Tom   that   be   how   little   interest    hard    student   after  finish

Everyone has pressure. Today let`s look at the Greens and see           they relax.
There           four people in this family. Mr. Green is a policeman. He works very            from Monday to Saturday. He walks his dog every day            dinner for an hour.
Mrs. Green is a teacher in a school. Her            are young and naughty. She often plays badminton with them after school.
Tom is Mr. Green`s son . He is only sixteen years old. After he             his homework, he often plays basketball with his friends.
Linda is           sister. She is only eight years old. She has              homework than Tom . She often plays the piano at home.
They are all           in dancing. They often have a family party on weekend. At the party, they usually play the music            they can dance to.

argue，beautiful ，care，far，for，good ，heat，include，special ，succeed ，under ，work

Xu Yuanchong is a famous Chinese modern translator.Born in Nanchang，Jiangxi Province in 1921，he studied （1）　 　Qian Zhongshu，Wu Mi and other Chinese masters at The National Southwest Associated University.He went to University of Paris for （2）　 　study after graduating from Tsinghua University.

    Over the course of a translation career（生涯）lasting more than seventy years，Xu has translated about 120 works，（3）　 　.

The Book of Songs，The Songs of Chu and The Red and the Black，with a （4）　 　 focus on poetry（诗歌）.Xu is also the only person in China who has （5）　 　 translated poetry to and from Chinese，English and French，in a very precise（准确的）and beautiful way.His （6）　 are often chosen as textbooks for foreign language learners.

    Xu pays much attention to the （7）　 　 of image，sound and form.He will leave something out and add something to make the translated works more beautiful.During his translation career，he has been at the center of many （8）　 　 debates（辩论）with other translators.But Xu said， "I am not afraid of （9）　 　 because the truth becomes clearer with each debate. "

    Now Xu is 100 years old.He has stopped his translation of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.He is writing more about his own life.

    To everyone，he sends a wish： "Good，better，best.Never let it rest until your good is better and your better is（10）　 　.

用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空。 每词限用一次，每空限填一词。

In the end, Norman Bethune_________ of his wound.
________ to my father’s help, I made the kite at last.
With an ________ stomach, I was starving and unable to play basketball.
“Did you enjoy _________ in London, Lucy and Lily?” Betty asked.
As a good student, don’t be _________ the school rules.

阅读下面短文，根据其内容，从方框中选择适当的单词填在标有题号的空白处，使语意通顺、完整。 （每空一词，且不可重复，不需变形式）

advantages    never    who    believe    first    full    discover    than    so   everyone      sisters   and      in       reason    with

We are in a world which is        of competition. Our parents compete(竞争) with others in their offices, our brothers and            compete with others in their colleges, and we compete           our classmates in school. Many of us give up in the face of competition and will     be successful. Why can't we do better         others? One important          is that we have no self-confidence(自信)。
In fact,             is born equal (平等的) . You can do what others do. Although your classmates may be better than you       some ways, you may be better than them in other subjects. So everyone has his or her own       . Don’t look at things from a single point of view. Try to          your own advantages, and            that you can do better than others in those ways.
Competition is not     terrible. Don’t be afraid of it. And don’t be afraid of those classmates          are better than you. Remember that self-confidence is the          step to success. Believe in yourselves,           you will be successful one day.

two     south       lady       pick      you

Ann, help __________ to some chicken soup.
In China, ___________ people eat rice a lot.
They were busy __________ oranges on the farm when we saw them.
I went to London for the ____________ time last month.
Here are some new shoes for __________, madam.

pieces  study   think   know  pressure   after   at between   never    someone    usually   information

Usually, most women cannot keep a secret for longer than 47 hours, a new study shows. The  finds that women like to tell others gossip(闲言碎语) as soon as they hear it. They will tell   least one other person in 47 hours and 15 minutes. They may tell their boyfriend, husband, best friend or mother the    at first.
3,000 women age    18 and 65 took part in this study. The study found that four out of ten said that they couldn’t keep a secret. It also found that wine    gave them a help hand to speak out secrets.
Usually English ladies heard three     of gossip a week, and they would tell at least one person. Six in ten said they would tell    who had nothing to do with the secret, so the person about the secret couldn’t   . Three in ten said they had ideas to speak out the secret. Nearly half(45%) of them spoke out the secrets just for losing their   . However, two thirds of them said that they felt sorry    they passed on secrets. Three quarters of them said they could keep quiet about a secret. But over a quarter(27%) said they always forgot what they heard the following day.

simple，be，he，invite，bad，minute，speak，very，usual，walk，seat，drop

Brian was not good at pubic speaking. One day, he  to make a speech at a church. His younger sister, Ann knew he was nervous and tried to calm him down. “Don’t worry. Everything fine.”
When the day came, Brian’s car had an accident on the way to the church. Luckily, he was not hurt and arrived at the church on time. It was  turn. When he stood up, his coat became tangled(缠绕) with his chair. After a few  , he finally began his speech, but he was so nervous that he dropped his book. Many people thought he would run, but he went on.
Suddenly, peple saw something     down from his nose, blood(血)! He stopped  when he saw the blood. But he still tried to finish his speech. Then Ann quietly moved to the front and handed him her handkerchief(手帕). Then she gave him a smile and
 to her seat.
It was a really simple gesture(手势), and might be the  . She just saw someone in need, and gave him a hand. In the end, Brian finished his talk, with more confidence.

arrive,   play against,   excited,   leaving for,   famous

For the last 20 years, David Beckham was a very soccer player. He played with teams in England, Spain, America and Italy. He in Beijing with his teammates yesterday. They are going to  China’s national team tomorrow. Soccer fans are very  . But it’s too bad that the team isn’t going to stay for long. They areJapan the day after tomorrow for a game with Japan’s national team.

like, dream, take, idea, think, important, night, wake, long, because ,quick, from

“Dreams may be more important than sleep. We all need dreams,” some scientists say.
Dreams ___ up about one quarter of our sleeping time. People have a few dreams each ___. Dreams are ___ short films. They are usually in color. Some ___ are like old films. They come to us over and over again. That may be ___ the dreamer is thinking about something. Dreaming may be a way of trying to find an answer.
Some people get new ___ about their work from dreams. They may __ about their work all day. These ideas can carry over into dreams.
Sometimes we __ up with a good feeling from a dream. But often we can’t remember the dream. Dreams can go away ___.
Too much dreaming cannot be good. The more we sleep, the ___ we dream. The mind is hard at work when we dream. That is why we may have a long sleep and still wake up tired.

My best pen pal,Jim,comes   America.He is thirteen years old .He is a middle school student. He brown hair and blue eyes.    sister is a student,too. Her hair  black.and she is of medium   .
Jim likes helping others .so he is very    in his school. He spends lots of time his studies.   ,He likes    Chinese food very much. such as noodles. He  to visit China one day.

shows     exciting     from     takes    dresses

Mulan is an ______ action movie. It comes _________ an old Chinese story. The movie is about a village girl, Mulan. She_________ up like a boy and _______her father’s place to fight in the army. I like Mulan very much. The movie______ her love for her family, friends and country.