初中英语短文填空试题

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.

根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词，使短文意思完整，每空一词。（本题共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）（注意：请在答题卡上写出包含首字母的完整单词！）
As teenagers, you have many dreams. These dreams can be very big, such as wthe Nobel Prize.  Or they can be small.  You just want to become one of the top ten students in your class. Once you find a dream, what do you do with it?  Do you ever try to make your dream r  ?
Follow Your Heart by Australian writer Andrew Matthews tells us that making our dreams real is our l biggest challenge (挑战).
You may think you’re not very good at some school subjects, or that it is i    for you to become a writer. These kinds of thoughts p you from reaching your dream, the book says.
In fact, everyone can make his dream come true. The first thing you must do is to remember the dream in your m .Don’t let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself w you want. Do this step by step and your dream will come true faster b  a big dream is made up of many small o. Please never give them up.
There will be difficulties on the road to your dreams. But the biggest comes from yourself. You need to decide what is the most important. Studying instead of watching TV will l to better exam results, while saving five yuan instead of buying an ice cream means you can buy a new book..

根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词，使短文意思完整。
In the forest a group of birds had a happy life ,a man came to the forest to cthese birds. He put a lot of rice on the g and then put a net over the rice. After that, he climbed up a nearby tree to w for the birds. The birds soon arrived. They saw the rice and flew down to eat the rice. Suddenly, the leader of the birds shouted. “Wait! No one leaves rice on the ground l this. Someone is trying to catch us.” But no one listened to him and they went on eating. They had only eaten a little when they w_
trapped in the net. The man got down from the tree and walked over to the birds. The birds were very n _when they saw the man c. “ What will happen to us?” thought the birds. Then the leader s, “ Quickly, let’s fly together! One, two, fly!” In the e __ ,they lifted the net together and f into the sky with the net.

词汇应用（共12小题；每小题1分，满分12分）
阅读下面的短文，用括号内所给词的适当形式填空，必要时只 助动词。请将答案填写在文后相应的横线上。
Today many Chinese people want to improve their English in differentways (recent) _?twenty-four young singers from all over China( enter) a competition by singing popular English songs. Nearly all the singers sang very clearly and looked  (comfort) the stage. Although some of them took part in the competition for the  (one) time were able( sing) English songs just as well as native speakers.
The winner of the  ( men) competition was a 40-year-old man from Xi'an am winner of the women’s competition was a 19-year-old girl from Dalian. Both of   (they) were very modest and they didn’t think they were   ( good) than the other singers. Jiangmei the winner of the women’s said studying English helped her win the prize and she would have to study hard.
This kind of competition encourages people   (speak) English. Many people agree that they make progress by singing English songs and that it’s a good idea to have fun withEnglish.
Maybe you    ( hear) of The Chinese Speak English program before. If not,why don’t you find out about it? It suggests lots of ways for us to take an interest in   ( learn) English.
Besides singing English songs,there are many other fun ways to learn English. If you look hard enough_, you   (find) a good way to learn English better.

缺词填空(10分)
There is nothing more i_______ to life than the sun. W_____ the sun, all living things on the earth would die. The sun is a star. In the sky there are t______ of stars like the sun. They are as large as the sun and as h_______as the sun. At night you can see many stars, but in the day you can only see one star------ the sun.
The sun is much n____ to us than any other star. That is w______ it looks the biggest and brightest of all the stars. The distance (距离) of the sun from the earth is as m_____as 150,000,000 kilometers. Most stars are thousands of light-years a_____from the earth.
Do you know what a light-year is? N____ in the world travels faster than light. It travels 300,000 kilometers per second. And one light-year is the distance that light can travel in one y_______.

根据短文内容和首字母提示，填写所缺单词。
YaoMing, a Chinese eminent figure（杰出人物） in the filed of b_____, who once played for the Houston Rockets of NBA in the U.S.A..
YaoMing raised his fame(名誉) swiftly after he went to America. S______ then, There was an increasing number of people who knew him. N______ only did the Chinese people know him, but also the American and other foreign countries’ people as well. Today, he still enjoys a high level of popularity as a boss. He is referred to as ‘Big Yao’, because he is 2.26 metres t_________
Big Yao never failed to attack the attention of everyone. He always tried his best to play in each m__________, he plays basketball by heart.
Recently, he returned to China for the basketball match. Few matches can be more fantastic than the match b_________ China and Australia. I have watched this match which made me feel so exciting. It was the 4^th part of the match and only several seconds l______.
Catching the ball from one of the team, YaoMing jumped to the air, throwing the ball as quickly as p_______. All the spectators are looking at the basketball. Excitedly, the ball was t_____ into the net! There was no more time for Australian to throw the ball. China won the great match.
Though YaoMing is by no means considered to be a great basketball player, his name will probably r_________ immortal(不朽的).