初中英语短文填空试题

Have you ever seen paintings on feathers (羽毛)? A man in Australia has painted hundreds
of  pieces of feather art. Lan Davie lives in a farmhouse in Australia. He collects swan (天鹅) feathers  from a lake. Then, he cleans these feathers and paints on them. It is   ( real) hard to paint on feathers. Each painting takes about one week to finish. He sometimes puts  (fifth)  feathers together to draw a larger picture.
About ten years ago, Mr. Davie went on an   (importance) holiday in New Zealand. He
watched how local people painted on feathers. When he  (come) back to Australia, he started to create    ( he) own feather art. Mr. Davie has become a famous  (paint). Some of his works are sold for thousands of pounds.

A: Hi, Jane. Nice to see you again. I heard that you went to the U.S.A. during the vacation.
B: Yes, I went there to attend a summer     in English.
A: Wow. You were lucky. Can you tell me something about your course?
B: Sure.
A: How   did you stay there?
B: About 40 days. I went there on July 15th and   on August 25th.
A: Where did you live?
B: In Mr. Smith’s house. And     with an American family, I could speak English with them daily.
A: How nice! And how about the course?
B: The course was also very good. You can sit anywhere you like in the classroom. And you are welcome to   your ideas with others. I really like it.
A: How interesting! Maybe my own teacher Miss Wang is    to try that.   tell her about it.

Mr. Wang loves c      stamps. It not only brings him h      but also know him know a lot about history. Last year he    （买）    a set of four stamps to remember the great book Master Sun’s Art of War. This book is one of the e       and the most important military (军事的) books in the world. The book is          useful and important that it’s known by many other countries in the world. The face values(面值) of the     were 20，30，60 fen and one yuan, but Mr. Wang spent about 2,000 yuan     them. He often      the fun of collecting stamps with his friends. He says,“I am very happy    I’m looking at my stamps. They let me know more about the history of our country and make more    .”

The top Chinese scientist Yuan Longping，famous for his "Super Rice"，died of illness at the age of 91（1） 　 　May 22th，2021.

Yuan Longping（2） 　 　（be）born in Beijing in 1930.For almost 60 years，he had given most of his time and energy to rice research.So far，the hybrid rice（杂交水稻）he developed（3） 　 　（pull）millions of people out of hunger all over the world.His achievements were so great（4） 　 　he was called "The Father of Hybrid Rice" and won World Food Prize.

During his lifetime，Yuan Longping spent（5） 　 　（much）time in the farm field than in his office.He was often seen watching plants（6） 　 　（close）and thinking of ways to improve them，just as many Chinese（7） 　 　（farmer）do.

Yuan once said he had（8）     　 dream-to "enjoy the cool under the rice plants taller than men".（9） 　 　 a pity it is that he can't continue his dream now!But surely，people believe，his dream（10） 　     　 （come）true in the near future.

Ricky is 12 years old .He is a student at Nanjing Middle School. He loves sports. At school, he likes p___ basketball with his friends . He is in the school basketball t____.Ricky plays very w___.His f___ basketball star is YaoMing . He always w ___ his games on TV .Yao Ming is his hero.

A：Hello, Lin Zhe! This is Rose.
B:    ___  __ _    ___   you, Rose.
C: Nice to meet you, too.
B   ___  twelve.   ___  ___  are you ?.
C: I’m thirteen years old .
B: What   ___  are you in ?
C: I’m__    Class Three.
B:   ___  are you   _ ___  ?
C: America.
B: Goodbye.
C: Bye.

Sue has a cat. She likes playing wit at home. But she's seven now and her father tells her to go to school. The teacher does not let her tthe cat into the classroom. She has to leave it at home, so she isn't h. She doesn't want to go to school or listen t_her teacher.
Now the students of Class Three are having a Maths lesson. Mr Green finds Sue is looking out of the w. He asks Sue, “What's two and two, Sue?” Sue stands u, but she can’t answer. “If如果 your mother gives you two pencils,” Mr Green says, “and I give you two , how mpencils do you have?” “Five, Mr Green. ” “You're wrong,” Mr Green says. “You have f. ” “I dthink so,” Sue says. “I already已经 have oin my pencil box!”

短文填空(共10小题:每小题I分，满分10分)
Happiness is for everyone，and you don’t need to care about those people who have beautiful houses w large gardens and swimming pools or those w have nice cars and a lot of money and so on．Why? Because those who have big houses may often feel land those who have cars may want to w
at school，your friends will help you；when you study at your lessons，your parents are always taking good care of your life and your h  ；when you get s，your friends will say congratulations （祝贺）to you；when you do s  wrong，people around you will help you to correct it．And when you do something good to others，you will feel h ，too．All these are your happiness．If you notice those things，you can see that h  is always around you．

根据短文内容和所给中文提示，在空白处写出单词的正确形式。每空限填一词。
All of us want to be heard, but are we listening when other people are speaking? Doing it well takes lots of practice. Here are some   (有用的) tips.
First, give them your full attention. Put down your pen. Turn off your cell phone. Show them you are   (感兴趣的) in listening to them.
Second, use body   (语言). Meet their eyes. Nod, smile and say “Mm hum” “Yeah” “I see” or “Really” to show that you are listening.
 (第三), let them talk. Say things like “That’s really interesting.” or “I’d like to hear more.” Don’t finish their sentences for them. Don’t change the subject to talk about yourself,(也). A good listener listens about 80% of the time   (在…期间) the conversation and   (花费) only 20% of the time talking. Remember that we have two ears and one mouth for a   (原因) ---listen more, speak less.
Fourth, be slow to share your ideas. It’s possible that the speakers just want to feel heard and(理解). So share your own ideas only when they are needed.
Last but not least, put yourself in their shoes. You may not have a lot in common with them. But you can  (尝试) to see their problems through their eyes. In doing so, you are better able to understand them and their problems.

 
There once was a monkey. He _____to laugh at everyone . He swung(摆动) from tree to tree, called all the other ___bad names and threw bananas at them..
One day he saw a baby elephant near the river.“Hey ,baby elephant, you are so ______, and you’ll never be able to catch me,”said the monkey.
“Why do you have to laugh at me?”the baby elephant asked.“I ____ make anyone upset.”“It’s so fun,”said the monkey.
The monkey went away, swinging from tree to tree. Then he _______ a turtle sleeping with his mouth open. The monkey thought it would be a lot of fun putting _____finger into the turtle’s mouth .He did so, _____the turtle shut his mouth just at that time. The monkey shouted in pain. The ____ turtle woke up and let the monkey go. The monkey climbed up a tree and shouted all the way.

My name is Basil. I’m 14y     old. I live in New York now. I am a s    in a middle school here. There are m    students and teachers in my school. Some of t     are Chinese. I want to make friends and talk w     them.
Edward is my friend. He is from London. He l     near my home. I like Chinese best. His f     lesson is Chinese, too. But he is not good at it. I want to h    him. He also likes p     basketball very m______. He is a fan of Yi Jianlian.

语法填空（本题有10题，每小题1分，共10分）
Dear Captain Lim,
I used to be afraid of flying, but after reading your book, I felt much    (good)every time before I flew.    (read) your book helped me to build up my courage (勇气) to fly. However, I have had this scary    (feel)again since the MH370 incident (事件). Last week, I also read a pieceof news that a plane went through severe turbulence (强烈的气流). Most passengers on it were      (scare) and several of     even got hurt. May I know whether this kind of severe turbulence often happens and have you    experienced this kind of situation before? How do pilots usually take     of it? For passengers, it seems that it’s not    to control(控制). But do pilots feel the same or is everything actually controlled by pilots when there’s severe turbulence? I really hope you can answer these
  (question). Captain Lim, please help me as I am so afraid     sometimes I can’t sleep after thinking so much about flying.
Thank you very much.
Marissa

In different countries and cultures around the world，free time is spent in different ways.

Several years（1）       （以前），researchers made a couple of surveys on how people spent their free time.The results（2） 　      　 （显示）that reading was the most popular activity in the United States，followed by watching TV.In UK，watching TV and videos was the most popular，and listening to the（3） 　    　 （收音机）came second.For Japanese，eating out was their favourite activity in their free time.And they also like（4） 　 　 （驾驶）around.

There were also differences in what people liked to do outdoors（5） 　 　（在……之中）the three countries.The most popular outdoor activity for（6） 　 　（美国人）was gardening while in Japan it only came（7）     　（第九）.For British people，going to the pub was their first choice，followed by visiting the cinema.

（8） 　 　（虽然）people around the world may enjoy doing some similar things in their free time，their interests are changing.In the US，for example，the interest in（9） 　 　（电脑）activities is increasing.More people are spending their free time going online，or playing video games.As reading becomes much（10） 　 　（更容易的）on the Internet，online reading will be as popular as other online activities.

短文填空 先通读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容和所给首字母，在空格内填入一个适当的词，使短文意思完整。所填单词必须在答题卡标有题号的横线上完整写出。 （本大题共 5 分， 每格 0.5 分）
It was already late when we started for the next town. According to(根据) the map, it was about fifteen miles a___ on the other side of the hill. There we felt sure that we would f_____ a bed for the night. Soon darkness fell after we left the village, b______ unluckily, we met no one as we drove fast along the narrow road which led to the hill. As our car climbed higher, it became c_____ and the rain began to fall, and it was d______ for us to see the road. We drove very slowly.
After we traveled for about twenty miles, there was still no sign of the town. We were beginning to get worried. Then, the car suddenly s_____. We found that we used up the gas(汽油), so we d_____ to spend the night in the car.
After eating some bread, I t_______ to go to sleep at once, but John, a poor sleeper, got out of the car after a few minutes and went for a walk up the hill. Soon he found, in the valley below, the lights of the town we were looking for. We at once pushed(推) the car to the t_____ than a quarter of an hour, we were in the town and we found a hotel there easily.

短文填空(每空1分，共8分)阅读短文，用所给单词的正确形式填空，每词限用一次。
after, too, exercise,  become, and, good, health, time
Wei Hua is a high school student and he is pretty healthy. He does ___every day. He does it usually when he comes home ____school .And his eating habits are pretty good. He tries to eat more vegetables, usually ten to eleven ___ a week. He eats fruit ___drink milk every day. Of course, he loves junk food, ____, but he tries to eat it only once a week.he usually keeps sleep eight or nine hours every day. So you see, he looks very ___and happy. And his good lifestyle（生活方式）helps him___clever,too. Eating healthy food and doing exercise help him to study ____.