初中英语短文填空试题

Once a big horse and a small donkey were traveling together, carrying all kinds of  things on their backs for their owner. The big horse was very strong but  he carried as heavy as the small donkey.
The donkey was able to keep up with the big horse in the b         . But after a w       , the donkey began to feel too tired  to keep up any more. So the donkey asked the horse, “Brother Horse, could you please help me? I am a           I  can’t go on carrying as heavy as you can.”
“No, you carry yours. I carry mine. It is not my p          that you are not as big and strong as me,” answered the horse, feeling very  p           that he was stronger.
Not long after that, the donkey finally f        down to the ground and died.
Their owner m           what the donkey carried  onto the back of the horse. Having to  carry the double load(负荷物) for the r          of the journey, the horse now knew he should have h          the donkey out. That way at l           the donkey could carry something. The horse was sorry for being too selfish, but it was too late.

根据短文内容，从短文前的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。如果选项为E，则涂A和B两项。

A．How many hours a day are you online? B．If you have IAD，what can you do? C．People with IAD are online a lot. D．In this way，you can have a good social life with other friends. E．Doctors say this is a new sickness.

 
Computers are good tools（工具）.The Internet is also good. But some people spend too much time online. They can’t stop.        They call this sickness Internet Addiction Disorder （互联网成瘾症）（IAD）.
   They spend hours talking to their friends or playing online games. Many people with IAD spend more time on the Internet than with family or friends. Some people with IAD even quit（辞掉）their jobs!
Do you have IAD? Think about these questions：     Is it a lot or a little? When you are not online，are you thinking about playing a computer game or checking your messages? When you are online，do you forget the time? Do you get angry when you can’t play a game?
 Dr. Ivan Goldberg and Dr. Kimberly S. Young have some ideas. First，ask yourself “Why am I online a lot?” Then try to take a break. For example，use the computer or play games twice a week，not every day.    

A．The cartoon pig is not smart, either.
B．That’s why both children and adults find McDull cute.
C．However, the slow, silly pig has won over Hong Kong people.
D．According to  his headmaster, McDull isn’t that silly. He’s just too kind.
E．The story is more than its funny points. It is pleasant and sour at the same time.
The best-loved pig in Hong Kong is called McDull. His mum makes a wish that he will look like Chow Yun-fat or Tony Leung, but he is well-known only by a birthmark around his right eye.
Everything he tries, he fails. He wants to be an Olympic champion of qiangbaoshan （抢包山）, but the sport of catching the hottest baozi from a small mountain doesn’t really exist （存在）, of course. He dreams of going to the Maldives, but ends up on only a one-day tour of a Hong Kong landmark instead.
   McDull was at first a supporting character in a story about his cousin McMug, a smart baby pig and “what parents expect of their children.” But interestingly, the wooden-headed McDull gradually became more attractive when he told his classmates that if he became the class monitor, he would treat everyone with strawberry cakes. McDull tried to speak out one sentence in his speech, “If you choose me, you will be...painful.” For him, it looks only a little bit different from an “A” when he gets an “E”.   
   In one of the McDull movies, he talks to the audience （观众）, “I suddenly realize that there is something you cannot have. No noodles, no Maldives, no golden medal, no money... Actually, being silly is not funny---it could mean failure （失败）. Being fat is not funny. Being fat does not even mean you are stronger. Disappointment is not funny, either. When I grow up, and face the strict world that isn’t funny, what should I do?” He is still happy, however. He always starts again with a new dream when one fails him.
   The popularity of McDull sometimes makes his creator Alice Mark confused, who has some simple thoughts, such as God creates humans, because he loves humans and he wants them to be happy. “Maybe people see themselves and their friends in McDull. McDull makes people realize that they used to be as simple and happy as him. If there is a theme in all the McDull movies, it is about how a simple person keeps his or her simplicity in a world full of problems.     ” says Alice Mark.

It was Friday that day. The sun was shinning    . Mrs. Zhang     to buy a fish in a fish shop. She didn’t know how to cook it. So she asked the shopkeeper      down the way of cooking on a piece of paper. Then she put the paper    her pocket and left the shop       with the fish.
On her way home, a white cat     the fish away from her and ran away at once. Mrs. Zhang ran after the cat      she couldn’t catch it. But suddenly she remembered   and laughed. She shouted to the cat   , “You don’t know how     the fish. The paper is still in my pocket!”

把A－E五个选项填入文中的空缺处，使短文内容完整、正确。
Once there was a young man. He sold various（各种各样的）fruits in a town market each day. ____________. He believed that the earlier he got to the market, the more he could sell. This made other sellers crazy, and they also came to the market earlier and earlier.
To get up even earlier, he thought that if he ate his breakfast at night, he wouldn’t have to eat it in the morning. _______________. He went to bed stuffed(吃得过多) that night, but he knew it was for a good cause.
Morning came and the young man was surprised to see that many people had already been there. ____________. That night, he decided to get dressed at night so that he could save time in the morning. He went to bed with his work clothes on, but in the morning some sellers were there before him again.
__________________. He carried his bed to the town. That night, he lay on his bed and watched the night sky. The moon was full and he was very excited. ________________. When morning came, the young man was so sleepy and tired that he couldn’t get up, so he slept the day away as the buyers came and left around him.
A boy studied overnight in order to prepare for his exam. Is that similar to the way the young man behaved?

A. That night, after he ate dinner, he ate his breakfast. B. Then he decided to spend the night at the market. C. He always tried to be the first seller to arrive there. D. He realized that his plan had failed. E. It was hard for him to sleep.

把A—E五个选项填入文中空缺处，使短文内容完整、正确。
It was a dark night . ______ .I thought he could be having a midnight snack , so I went back to my bed . Soon , there was a burning smell and I thought something must be wrong .At once , I jumped out of bed and went downstairs to have a look. I saw a fire coming out of my Neighbor’s kitchen . ________ . But there was no one nearby to hear my shouts for help . I ran quickly into my house and called the Fire Department and went back to my neighbor’s house . I knocked at the door and called my neighbor’s name, but there was no answer . _______ . I tried to pour water through the kitchen window but it was no use . The fire was too big. ________.
When my neighbor came back , he was sad because his kitchen was burnt down , but he thanked me for calling the Fire Department and for saving the pets .
Several weeks later , my neighbor invited me to his home for dinner . _______. Later on , he gave me the photo as a present . It made me very happy.

A. I shouted “ Fire!” B. At his new kitchen , he took a photo for me . C. I tried to break into the house and saved a cat and a rabbit . D. I saw bright light in my neighbor , Jack’s kitchen . E. Luckily , a fire engine arrived and the firemen put out the fire .

I live in a flat in the c_______ of Moscow. Our flat is on the s________ floor. It’s not big, but we have a nice l________ room. After dinner, we like to watch TV and c_______ there. I s____ a bedroom with my sister. We often listen to music in bed.
Would you like to stay in a q_______ town? The air is f______ here. You can see many trees, lakes and green hills. There is also a beautiful park in the town centre. Local people like j_____ in the park in the morning. Sunshine Town is not f_____ from the centre of Beijing. It takes only 40 minutes by u_______.

Dear Han Mei,
How are you ? I’d like to tell you something interesting about my travel.
Last week, I  to Xishuangbanna for my vacation with my father. Xishuangbanna is in Yunnan,     the southwest part of China.  It’s for its beautiful mountains, forests and lakes. Many people go there to enjoy their every year. My father booked the room     we arrived. We stayed there for three days and took many    . We saw monkeys and some other    . They were very cute and we couldn’t help   them.
We had an  trip. I  tired but happy. Please e-mail soon and tell me about your vacation.
Yours
Nancy

I’m planning my summer vacation. I don’t know what kind of holiday I should have—a lazy one or an exciting one. ____ We stayed in an excellent hotel, which had three swimming pools. It was quite expensive but we really enjoyed ourselves.
This year, Joanna is going to Greece with her parents. ___ Ling wants us to go on an adventure(冒险) holiday in Africa. ___ She said it would be interesting and better than having a lazy holiday because we would learn about the world around us. I’m not sure where to go.
____ It doesn’t mean walking across the desert(沙漠). Ling said she’d like to see elephants and lions and have some wonderful experiences. I think she’s bored of lying in the sun all day and wants to have a change. __ However, it is less than half that amount(金额) if I go to Portugal（葡萄牙）for two weeks. Which one should I choose?
根据材料内容，从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项，是短文意思通顺，内容完整。

A．It would cost each of us $1400 to go to Africa.

B．For me, a holiday means relaxing on a beach.

C．Last year, I went to southern Spain with my best friends Joanna and Ling.

D．So it’ll be just Ling and me.

E． We will walk in the desert and sleep out in the open.

My name is Yuko Yamaguchi. I am one of the designers of Hello Kitty.

Hello Kitty_________(design) in 1974 at first. From about 1978, she stopped __________(sell) well. The second designer _____(leave) and just when I thought that the company would not look for a third one, the manager said that he would not allow her death. I won the company’s competition and became the ___(three) designer in January, 1980. In Japan it was in 1997 that people began to talk about her as being a cute character.  The same thing happened in the US and _______(late), in 2002, in Europe.
Hello Kitty _______(not have) a mouth, so people who look at her can give their own feelings onto her face because she has an expressionless face.  Hello Kitty _________(look) happy or sad when people are happy or sad.
Through Hello Kitty, which is a symbol of friendship, we can all be friends. I want her to be a character that encourages people ______(become) friends. I want her to be a link between all people around the world.
Now, the number of male and female fans _______(increase). I believe in ten  ______(year) time, everybody around the world _______(know) her. Also, Men who dislike to be seen with Kitty in public today might be wearing Hello Kitty boxing gloves. And  they will stop being shy and will show off Kitty _________(proud).

【改编】Nowadays more and more Chinese teenagers find life     （比较）difficult without their parents. They don’t know how to do      /’hauswək/. Because their parents do almost everything for them at home. This is a big problem.
Joy is 14 years old. One day her parents went away on business, so she had to stay at home alone. At first she thought she would be    ＿, because her parents weren’t in. She could do everything she liked. But it was six o’clock in the afternoon,she   （感到）hungry“Oh, it’s time to have supper. Where can I get my food?” she said to herself.   ＿（后来） she found some food in the fridge, but she didn’t know how to c     ．At that moment, she missed her pvery much. At last she could only go to the supermarket and b  some food to eat.
Many teenagers are the   (同样的）as Joy.So I think they should learn some basic life skills, like cooking, tidying up their rooms or dressing themselves . They shouldn’t   (依靠)on their parents too much.

Tang Ling often smoked cigarettes(香烟) in his school’s washing room. He started smoking  the age of 14. One day he learnt that the NBA star Yao Ming, an ambassador(大使) to the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control (中国控烟协会), asked people not to smoke. Yao Ming was Tang’s favorite star,his words meant a lot to him. He decided toup smoking.
According to the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control, about 350 million Chinese smoke. Among, 50 million are teenagers. Sun Jiangping of Beijing University said, “ Teenagers can get cigarettes easily , especially when their parents smoke or shops sell cigarettes to them. It’s very importantparents to help their children stop smoking.”A 15-year-old boy named Li Kun from Beijing said his didn’t smoke. Because they thought smoking could make people feel badly ill, they only allowed him to play with friends without smoking. Living in such a good family helped Li say to cigarettes. Some of his smoking classmates once told Li that smoking made boys look, but Li disagreed. He said, “Smoking is unhealthy and it’s not cool at all. Please stop smoking now!”

What must you do when you get a present for your birthday? You have to sit down and wa thank-note. The w“thank you” are very important. We have to use them very often. We say them when someone gives us a drink, hus to  pick up things, or lends us a book. A important word is “please”. Many people forget to use it. It is npolite to ask someone to do something without s“please”. We have to use it when we ask for something, too. It may be a book or a pencil, more rice or help.
We have to lto say “sorry”, too. When we hurt someone, we’ll have to go up to say “we’re sorry”. When we forget something, we will asay “sorry”.
These three words are easy bimportant. Our children must  learn to use them. They are pleasing(令人高兴) words to use in a language.

My name is Eric Green. I (be) a student. I have a sister. Her name is Lucy Green. She(be) a student, too. I have four basketballs. They (be) under the table. I can (play) basketball, but not well. Lucy (like) sports, too. She  (have) six tennis rackets. She (play) tennis every day. My father only lets her play in the afternoon before (在…之前) she (eat) dinner. Does she like (watch) TV? No, she (don’t).

语法填空。（共10小题，每题1分，共计10分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式（最多限填三个单词）填空。
Scotland has been    (celebrate) “Hogmanay” for centuries. Hogmanay is the other     for New Year’s Eve in Scotland.
Know as the Scotland’s   (big) event, Hogmanay is celebrated with fun and warmth in Edinburgh. It starts just after Boxing Day   December 26^th. Hogmany or the New Year in Scotland was introduced   the invading Vikings( 入侵海盗) in the 8^th and 9^th centuries. Cleaning the house, taking out the ashes from the fire and clearing all debts   (be) some traditions that counted as part of the New year in Scotland. One of the most wonderful   (custom) is shaking of giant fireballs on long metal poles. This can __ (see) during the New Year in Scotland.
  popular tradition that is being practiced by many people in Scotland during the New Year is the ceremony of “first footing”.
It’s believed that the    person over the thresh (门槛) on New Year’s Day will dictate(支配) the luck brought to the particular house during the New year. You can find and enjoy all of these during the New Year in Scotland.