初中英语短文填空试题

Americans thinks travel is good for people. Some even think it can help one of the country’s
w       problems---crime.
Crime w      a lot of people. Every year, the n       of crimes goes up and up. They often come from sad homes, with only one parent or no parents at all. There are problems with drugs.
There are many young criminals in prison. But prison doesn’t change them---60 to 70 percent will go b     to crime when they come out of prison.
One man, Bob Burton, t     of a new idea. In the old days, young men had to live a hard life on the road. They learned to be strong and b    , and to help their friends in time of danger. This helped them grow into men. So Bob started “Vision Quest(幻想探究)”.
He takes young criminals on a long, long j     with horses and wagons(马车) 3,000 miles through 7 states. They are on the road for more than one year. The young people on Vision Quest all have bad problems.  Most of them have already spent time in prison.  This is their last c       .
It’s hard work on the work. The day starts before the sun comes up. The boys and girls have to feed the horses. Some of them have never loved anyone before, b     they can love their horses. That love can help them to start a new life.
Not all young people in Vision Quest will leave crime behind them. 30 or 40 percent will one day be in prison a    . But that’s a lot better than 60 or 70 percent. Bob is right. Travel can be good for them.

Nowadays more and more Chinese teenagers find life more difficult without their parents. They don’t know how to do h        because their parents do almost everything for them at home. This is a big p       .
Joy is 14 years old. Last month her parents went aboard on b       , so she had to stay at home alone. At first she thought she would be h        when her parents were not in. She could do everything that she liked. B        when it was six o’clock in the afternoon, she felt h       . “Oh, it’s time to have supper. Where can I get my food?” she said to herself. L        she found some food in the fridge, but she didn’t know how to cook. At that moment, she m        her parents very much. At last she could only go to the supermarket and bought some food toe       .
Many teenagers are the same as Joy. So I think they should l        some life skills, like cooking, tidying up their rooms or dressing themselves properly. They shouldn’t depend too much on their parents.

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Barack Obama, a black man, is the p_______ of the United States now. He was born o____August 4^th,1961, in Hawaii(夏威夷）and has lived in many places. His mother was from Kansas(堪萨斯州）and his father was from Kenya(肯尼亚）。 Obama went to Columbia University in New York and got a law degree at Harvard University in Massachusetts. His w_____ is Michelle Obama. She also w______ as a lawyer(律师）and later worked for the University of Chicago. They have two young d_____. One is called Malia Ann, she is 12 years old. The o_____ one is Natasha, she is 9 years old.
Obama w______ a book Dreams from my father. “I always live in the dream of my father and American people,” Obama once said. He was born in a poor family. And he was t_____ good care of by his grandparents when he was young. He also lived and worked in Africa. Then he got good e_______ in Harvard University. On November 4^th,2012, he became the new president of A______ for the next four years.

Adopting(领养) a pet can be a lot of work, but it is also great fun. Mollie Lesser, 18, of Chicago, US, recently adopted a little dog named Cookie. Cookie is not Mollie’s first dog. The family had another dog that passed away over the summer. They were very s ____, so they adopted Cookie last autumn. It was only six m____ old. “My parents compare it to having a baby,” Mollie said. “It can take a lot of time.”
Cookie needs to be w____ or let into the backyard several times a day. His trainer, Lisa Collins, says a young dog actually needs to be let outdoors every two hours.
Owning a dog is not just about playing with it. O____ also want their dogs to do something helpful. Collins says that, t____ proper training, animals can learn to listen to orders from b____ adults and kids. Having a dog not only means providing it with fresh food and clean water every day, it also needs special care and a___. And patience and training are also necessary. Mollie said her dog has already chewed(咀嚼) up a pair of leather shoes. Her parents have been working with Collins to stop its bad behaviour l____ chewing or jumping on people. Having a pet takes a lot of time, but Mollie doesn’t m____.
“Falling in love with a pet is easy, but adopting a pet is a big decision,” said Lesser. “Think it over b____ you adopt a pet."

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It can be a lot of work to adopt (收养) an animal, but it is also a lot of fun. Mollie Lesser, 18, of Chicago, US, recently adopted a little dog named Bart. Bart is not Lesser’s first dog. The family had a________ dog that passed away last summer. They adopted 6-month-old Bart in January. “We forgot how much energy a youngd________ has,” Lesser said. “It can be very time-consuming (耗时的). My parents compare it to having a baby.”
Bart needs to be walked or let into the backyard several times a day. His trainer, Lisa Collins, says a young dog actually needs to be let outdoors every two h________.
Having a dog is not just about p________ with it. Owners also expect their dogs to do s________ helpful. Collins says that, through proper training, animals can l________ to obey commands (命令) from both adults and kids. Having a dog also means providing fresh f________, water and attention every day. Patience and training is also n________. Lesser said her dog has already chewed up a pair of her shoes. Her parents have been working with Collins to stop its bad behavior like chewing or jumping on people. Being a pet owner t________ a lot of time, but Lesser doesn’t mind.
“Falling in love with a pet is easy, but adopting a pet is a big decision,” said Lesser. “Think it over b________ you adopt a pet.”

You may know the song Happy Birthday very well, but do you know about its writer? It___________(write) by an American girl. And she has become a very rich woman. When she was a child , she was poor. Once she was invited to her friends’ birthday party. She had no money__________( buy) presents for them. She was sad. Her mother said “__(not worry). How about _______(sing) a song together? Happy birthday to…” She decided to write it down and _____(sing) it to her friends at the party. They sang and sang “We________(not hear) such a song before.” The party ended up singing a song. Later the girl became well known in America.

动词填空(6分）
John and Jack were good friends. They were kind to each other. But sometimes they _____ (argue) with each other .One day they went boating in a park together . At noon, they were very hungry and then went into a restaurant _______ (have) a dinner .As soon as they sat at a table, a waiter came up to them and asked, "What would you like ______ (have)?" "We want two apples first," said John .As soon as the two apples _____ (put)on the table, Jack took the bigger one in his hand. "You are too impolite, Jack .Why not take the smaller one first?" John said angrily. "But I did right. "said Jack with a smile, "If I let you take first, which one will you choose? " "Of course I _____(choose) the smaller one first?" said John. "Yes," Jack said, "If you ______(take) the smaller one first, the bigger one will be left and it is still mine .Don't you think so?" "Ah......" John couldn't answer.

Peter’s aunt comes to see his family and brings a kite to him.His mother gives it to  h    after lunch. Peter w     to fiy it but his mother doesn’t let him d    so.“It’s time to go to school,”says to his mother,“or you’ll be l     for class. You can play after supper.” Peter is not happy but he l    to his mother. Now Peter is in the classroom but he’s looking out.Some children are fiying kites n    the river.They are very high and Peter can see them in the classroom. He doesn’t listen to Miss Black. “Peter,please say nine things with milk in them.”says Miss Black. Peter doesn’t h    her. A boy behind him taps(轻拍) his back and  Peter k    it. He stands up and  Miss Black a     the question again. He thinks for some t    and then says, “Yes, teacher, tea, coffee, cake and...er---six cows（奶牛）.”

缺词填空（共10空；每空1分，计10分） （每空一词）
CCTV reported that a strong earthquake struck the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan on Saturday, k more than 30 people and injuring hundreds of others on April 20.2013. The quake hit just after 8 a.m. local time about 115 kilometers(70 miles) a from the provincial capital, Chengdu, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center gauging it at 7.0.
Many people were injured or l   their lives. And lots of houses were fallen down b of the strong quake. They have no place to live and the government has s lots of lodges（帐篷）to them. And the government set up the medical team to save people who are in danger and p drinking water and food for them at the same time.
Many organizations have r money to help Ya’an people. After earthquake, some people hope to go to the earthquake's scene to help people in need as v . Although we can't go to the earthquake's scene, we can help them in other w . For example we can donate money, clothes and other things as we can and send them in time.
We are s Ya’an People can overcome（克服）the difficulties at present with the help of the people from all over China. Ya’an, come on !

“Sorry” is a word that people in Britain often say in their daily life.
One day while I was w      on the street, a young man ran by hurriedly, brushing(轻擦) against my handbag. He continued his way, but turned b       and said “sorry” to me. Even in a rush, he didn’t f     to say “sorry”. One day, after I bought some bananas, the shopkeeper was passing me the change, but I wasn’t ready for it and a coin dropped onto the ground. “Sorry, Madam,” he said w      bending to pick it up. I was s     why he said “sorry” to me. Another time, I stepped on a man’s f      at the entrance to a cinema. At the same time, we b     said “sorry”.
Slowly, I got to k   that when something unpleasant happens in daily life, the British don’t c    much about who is wrong. If someone is in trouble, a “sorry” is always n      . Perhaps that is w     I seldom see people quarrel on the buses or streets in Britain.

短文综合填空（本大题满分11分，每空1分）
Most people may not think that there are any problems with watermelons, but some Japanese sellers do. There is often wasted s_______when they store watermelons, because round watermelons do not sit nicely on shelves. So some c_______farmers have solved the watermelon problem. They make their watermelons grow in square glass boxes so the watermelons become square. The only problem now is the p_______. The square watermelons cost about 80 dollars each.
Many people know the s_______“Roses are red, violets(紫罗兰) are blue, sugar is sweet and so are you”. Well, today the poem needs to c_______“Roses are red” to “Roses are red, roses are blue”! Australian scientists discovered that when they put a chemical from a blue f_______into a rose, they can create a nearly 100% blue rose. Some of science’s inventions are beautiful, not just u_______!
For many years Chinese scientists have been w_______on developing new kinds of stronger rice and now they have produced a new kind, called super rice. Super rice not only can protect i_______ against insects(昆虫) and diseases(病害), but it also produces more than any other kind of rice. Today farmers can grow almost one and a half times more rice than they could grow in the p_______.
Doctors might be able to use vegetables to fight cancer now. US scientists have discovered a w_______to put a chemical into tomato plants while they are growing. When cancer patients eat the tomatoes, the tomatoes will fight the cancer in their bodies.

缺词填空（共10小题，每题1分，满分10分）
Zeng Zimo becomes more and more popular among friends. But do you know her story
b  she became a hostess for Phoenix Satellite TV（凤凰卫视）? When she was only 17 years old, she i   on not going to Qinghua and Beijing universities. Though she had only one month to study TOEFL, she g  a high score first in that test.
Later she worked for a b   in New York for four years. Each day she had to deal w  data（数据）and forms. It’s a well-paid job, but she got tired, and decided to make a change.
When she joined the TV station, Zeng said she h   knew anything about the field at all. She had to learn how to do interviews all by h  . She had to learn how to face those c  . It was a challenge. But she found the new job fresh and fun.
Were her years in the bank wasted then? Zeng says that the a  is no. They made her smart and c  . "What you do in life changes the way you think. You take what you have learnt from an experience with you onto the next stage of life," she says in her book “Mo ji”.

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Project Hope helps people in the poor area build schools. It also helps poorc______ go to school. China’s Project Hope has raised lots of m       every year. It has helped more than 2.5 million poor studentss_____it was set up over 20 years ago. So far, the project has collected more than 2.2 billion yuan from China and o_____ countries in the world. The money has been used in the building of many Project Hope primary schools.
About 80 percent of the Project Hope schools are in China’s middle andw____ areas, because they are still developing.
Project Hope has helped tob     faraway learning centers, libraries and video centers. It also helped train school teachers from poor areas.
Of all the non-government welfare（福利）projects, Project Hope has become the l______ one so far in China. People say that still about 40 million primary school students n____ help around the country, including 34 million primary, junior, and high school students. Mr Gao, one of the w_____ in Project Hope said the organization wouldt______ to raise more money and help more students in the future.

短文填空（本题共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分） 
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Anger(生气) is a kind of feeling. Many things can make you angry. When your teacher gives you too much homework, when your team loses an important game, when your friend borrows your favourite thing and then b      it, you may get really angry.
　　Usually, your body will tell you when you are angry. For example, you breathe much faster, yourf    turns red and you may want to break something or hit someone, but sometimes, you try to hide your anger. For example, you may hide it in your head. The problem is that if you do this, you may get a h     or your stomach may hurt.
　　In fact, it's not g     to hide your anger, and it's normal for you to get angry sometimes. But anger must be let out in the right w    , without hurting others or yourself. Let me give you some advice.
　　When you get angry, you can talk about it witho     people. It's h    to talk about your anger with other people, such as parents, teachers, good friends etc. When you talk about anger, those b      feelings can start to go away. On the other hand, when you start to feel angry, you can do some othert     : count from 1 to 100, go for a bike ride, think about good things, and so on.
In a word, don't let your angerc    you. Remember that how you act when you are angry can make everything better or worse.

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Dear Mike,
We got your letter yesterday． Yes, we can visit you at Christmas． We planned to spend Christmas at home, but we are going to be with you． Your brother Jack will not in school then．
The weather in Chicago is cold, but it doesn’t matter． Sometimes we like the snow． We got our plane tickets the day before yesterday． We will get to your city on the 18th． We will stay with you for two weeks． Is that all right with you?
We’ll take our favourite recipes(食谱), so we can have a nice Christmas dinner．
See you soon．
Love
Mum and Dad
1.  This letter is from Mike’s　　【小题1】 ___
2.  It is　　【小题2】 ___ now, but they like the　　【小题3】 ___.
3.  Mike has a 　　【小题4】 ___called Jack. He is in　　【小题5】 ___ now.
4.  Mike’s parents will go to his city by　　 ___. They will　　___in Chicago   on the 18th.
5.  His parents will stay for two　　【小题8】___and come back on　　【小题9】___31th.
6.  His parents will take the recipes, so they can have a wonderfu　　【小题10】____ dinner.