中考英语首字母填空(自编)

With the development of modern society, an increasing number of people have been enjoying a higher living standard and starvation (饥饿)is no longer a problem. R___1___ dogs, which can bring their masters pleasure, is undoubtedly one of the ways. Different kinds of people can benefit much from raising dogs.

Kids always like these little animals. They have the chance to grow up with puppies, enjoying the pleasant childhood with their company. Gradually, they make f___2____ with each other and share the same wonderful memory. Kids walk their dogs, while dogs make kids feel relaxed deep in their heart. Since relationships in our neighborhoods nowadays are not as c___3____ as before, dogs can also help in a way. What is more, they can raise kids’ awareness (意识) of protection of dogs through living with them.

Besides kids, old people, whether alone or a couple, can a____4____ benefit from our dogs. They can gain company from their dogs. Dogs manage to effectively reduce their loneliness. Furthermore, dogs can also act as guides to the blind. It was unlikely for the blind to be accompanied at any time until the emergence of g____5____ dogs. They do much to help in terms of relieving the burden of the young people in taking care of the old, such as leading them cross the road and the way home. In addition, dogs can even guard houses. The old are p___6____ poor and they need a dog to protect them, as dogs have the potential to fight break-ins and burglars. In summary, dogs can not only be helpful in old people’s daily life, but also ensure their safety. Another group of people which interact closely with dogs are rescue team, who confront a variety of cases from dawn to dusk. With the help of dogs, cases are s___7___ more easily in daily detections, as dogs can tell directions accurately and immediately through their sharp sense of smell.

People with different backgrounds can gain a lot from dogs. Human beings are destined to lie harmoniously with dogs not only at present, but also in the future. 1.R_______ 2. f______ 3.c_______ 4. a______ 5. g______ 6.p______ 7. s______ I’ve always wanted to try rock climbing, but never had time or money for it. But I’ve discovered a way to e___1____ the thrill(兴奋，紧张) of climbing rock. Indoor climbing is an easy and exciting way to get a taste of rock climbing. And it is also much cheaper and safer! Indoor climbers don’t climb on real rock, but on a plastic wall. You can probably find a c____2_____ wall near you. Many gyms, schools and camps have one.

You can climb in doors at any time of the year, no matter how the w___3___ is. It is usually not expensive. Most gyms provide the equipment you need. The convenience of indoor climbing is one reason why it has become so popular. But the main reason people climb is for rush(刺激感) they get. When I stand at the roof of the wall and look up, I’m always s___4___, but once I start climbing, fear changes to determination. With my heart pounding(心剧烈跳动), I reach the top and look down.

I can’t stop grinning. I did it!

Indoor climbing is a great workout(锻炼). Climbing uses muscles(肌肉)that are hard to exercise, especially those in the shoulders, arms, chest and back. Many people say

climbing makes exercise fun. Most gyms have several climbing walls with various degrees of d____5____. The easier ones are like climbing a ladder. The difficult ones bulge out(凸出)in places so that climbers must sometimes climb parallel(平行的)with the floor.

Although gym climbing is easier and safer than real rock climbing, you should still be careful. Always climb with a p___6___. As you climb, he pulls you climbing rope through something called a belay device(绳索控制器). The belay c____7___ you if you slip. But make sure your partner knows how to use this equipment. And if you are

a first-time climber, get some instruction before you begin.

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A doctor was once teaching a class of m___1___ students at a famous hospital in Edinburgh. An injured man was brought in, and the doctor turned to one of the students and asked him:” What’s wrong with this man?”

“I don’t know, sir.” The student answered,” Shall I e____2___ him and find out?” There is no need to do this,” said the doctor.”You should know without asking questions. He has hurt his right knee. Didn’t you notice the way he w____3___? He hurt it by burning it in the fire. You see that his trousers’ leg is burned away at the knee. This is Monday morning. Yesterday was fine, but on Saturday the roads were much w___4___ and muddy. The man’s trousers are muddy all over. The man fell down on Saturday night.”

The doctor then t___5____ to the man and said,” You had your pay on Saturday and went to a public house and drank too much. You got wet and muddy on the way home. You tried to d___6____ your clothes by the fire when you got home. Because you had d___7___ too much, you fell on the fire and hurt your knee. Is that right?”

“Yes, sir,” said the man.

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A “There is no love which is more sincere than the love of food,” said Anglo-Irish writer George Bernard Shaw. Like Bernard Shaw, many writers e___1___ food very much, and they say and write interesting things about it.

British poet Owen Meredith(1831-1891) learnt a lot about food when he lived in Paris. He famously said, “We may live without friends, we may live without books, but civilized(文明的) men cannot live without c____2____ .”

American writer Mark Twain also wrote a lot about food. “When you have t___3___ watermelon,” he wrote, “you know what angels eat.”

American cookbook writer Alice May Brock has some simple rules about food from different

c_____4____. “If you want to cook international food, it’s easy,” she wrote. “Put tomatoes on the plate and it’s Italian. Use soy sauce and it’s Chinese. A___5___ wine to the recipe(食谱) and it’s French. Sour cream makes it Russian and lemon makes it

Greek. But garlic makes it good! Cheers!”

Tea and coffee are even more important for some people. There is a Chinese saying, “It is better to go without food for three days, than tea for one.”

American President Abraham Lincoln was often rude about the tea and coffee which was s____6____ to him. For example, he was in a Washington restaurant one day, and when the main meal was over, a cup of hot l___7___ was placed in front of him. He drank a bit and was clearly angry. “Waiter,” he said, “if this is coffee, please bring me some tea; and if this is tea, please bring m e some coffee.”

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It may be possible to enjoy a higher standard of living if you have a small family. There are clear advantages to having a small family. However , there can also be serious d____1___ if it is a small family. The parents have big responsibilities of r___2____ children by themselves if they have no help from other family m___3____ . Today, it is quite common for both parents to work full time in order to pay for the basic cost of living of family. When the parents come home, they are often very tired from a hard day at work. Still, they have to take care of the children, cook, clean, wash clothes, shop, etc.

When there is only one parent, of course the responsibilities of looking after the children are much h___4___ for him or her. They have to work out all the things by themselves. They just hope that everything goes right every day. More and more, people in small families have been trying to create their own extended families (大家庭) to meet their needs. They often try to d____5____ a net-work of friends and neighbors to be part of their self-created extended family. For example, small families may celebrate holidays t___6____ and, if there are children, they may share responsibilities of child raising. Your child might go to a neighbor’s house or apartment after school on certain days, and then you would do something in e___7___ to help your neighbor out. Many of these arrangements are very successful and helpful for those families.

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Although many people agree that junk food is unhealthy and has little nutrition, they are still fond of it. The name “junk food” first a____1_____ in 1972. Over the years, it has become popular with many people.

Suppliers are fond of it because it is cheap to make and easy to keep for a long time. Many c____2______ are fond of it because it is easy to buy and t___3___ good. Junk food has a lot of fat, salt or sugar and many food additives. Scientists believe that eating a lot of junk food m_____4____ people overweight. People may also have heart disease, high blood pressure and tooth problems if they eat too much junk food.

What is junk food, then? This is a difficult question. Different people may give different answers. For example, fast food such as hamburgers, pizza and French fries

are often r____5_____ as junk food. Other foods, such as roast potatoes and bread, are not junk food although they have limited nutrition. Also, candy and soft drinks are junk food because they have a lot of sugar, but grapes are not.

Should children eat junk food? When children start eating junk food, they will have less and less milk and healthy fruit juice. This can make them have w____6____ bones. However, some junk food, such as chips, may be good to children because they may have necessary fats. However, since they are fats, children should not eat too much.

To many scientists, junk food is not h_____7____ when people have it as part of a balanced diet.

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(B) While many l___1___ parents are busy choosing elite（精华）primary schools for their kids, some foreign parents are turning their eyes to o___2____ public schools. “Currently we have 26 foreign students from nine countries i____3__ Canada, France, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States,” said the headmaster of Nandanlu Elementary School. “In the hope that their kids p___4___ up the Chinese language and make friends with Chinese children, foreign parents pay more attention to their kid’s involvement in this new cultural environment for them.”American mother Tracy Cannell is one such pioneering parent. Moving to China three years ago, she sent her three kids to Nandanlu Elementary School. “I asked the school to a____5_____ for the brothers to be in different classes so as to f___6___ them to make new friends and speak no English,” Cannell said. “There is no better way to learn Chinese culture than through making friends with local people. Under my influence, neighbor Shonda Leonard, has also s___7____ her daughter to the same elementary school.”

These children do seem to have an interesting and rewarding e____8_____ at school with their Chinese classmates. Open, confident and willing to make friends, the foreign kids also s___9___ a global seed in the local pupils’ hearts.

To teach is to l___10____. While the teachers make special learning plans for the foreign kids to catch up with the Mandarin（普通话）of the local students, they themselves have also learned some foreign customs through communicating with kids and parents alike.

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Wonder why you can get angry so easily while your friend smiles all the time? It’s probably because you both have different personalities.

Personality is also about how people think, b___1____, and react to everything around them from day to day.

So what makes people think and behave in c___2____ ways?

Part of the reason is that people are b___3___ like this. A baby gets its blood type, genes (基因) and other physical things when it’s still inside its mother. These things may help decide what the baby will be l__4___.

But one’s personality doesn’t stop here. Family life, school learning and life experiences can also make you the per son you are. This doesn’t mean it’s i___5____ to change your personality. You can always try to make yourself better. Don’t get too worried about your shortcomings (缺点). Just a___6____them. This is a good way to start making changes.

If you don’t know how to make friends, find out why. Is it because you’re too shy? Tell yourself to smile at people. Start talking to people using warm g____7____.

Don’t give yourself a hard time about it all. It’s not easy to change lifelong h___8___ in one night. Keep working at it. One day you’ll see that you can turn over

a new leaf and be a new you!

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When I opened my eyes in the morning, something was different. It was light. I jumped up to look outside and sighed with d___1_____. Fine snow covered the yard, dusted the top of my truck and whitened the road. But that frozen solid – coating the wasn’t the w___2____ part. All the rain from yesterday had f___3____ needles on the trees in fantastic patterns, and making the driveway very slippery. I had enough trouble not f___4___ down when the ground was dry; it might be safer for me to go back to bed now. But my students were waiting for me.

I almost lost my b___5___ when I finally got to the truck, but I managed to hold on to the side mirror and saved m___6____ . My truck seemed to have no problem with the ice that covered the road. I drove very slowly, however , not wanting to carve a path of destruction through Main Street. When I got out of my truck at school, something silver caught my eye and I suddenly realized w__7___ I had so little trouble. There were crisscrossed chains in diamond shapes around the tires. My new neighbor, whose name I didn’t even know, had got up who knows how e arly to put snow c___8____ on my truck. My throat suddenly felt tight. I wasn’t used to b___9___ taken care of like that and it was at this moment that his unspoken concern caught me to my s____10____.

B. Part of the Great Wall in north China’s Hebei Pro vince has collapsed because of illegal mining. This has caused an alarm to ring for those concerned with protecting one of the country’s best known h_______ sites, which is also a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site.

The d_______ part of the Great Wall is located in a remote area near the country of Laiyuan in Hebei. The 150-kilometer stretch of the Great Wall in the county was built during the Ming Dynasty, it is known as the “wild Great Wall.” U_______ the typical landmark tourist attraction in Beijing, the wild Great Wall has never been repaired but instead left untouched.

Laiyuan county, which is r_______ in metals such as iron and copper, is home to a lot of small mines. Some of them operate as c_______ as 100 meters to the century-old wall. Mountains around the Great Wall are full of holes dug by i________ mining companies.

According to villagers and local officials, about 700 meters of the wall has already collapsed, and more parts of it will be in d________ if the illegal mining continues. In fact, a study in Hebei found that more than 80 percent of the wild Great Wall in the province was in a p______ state or had disappeared altogether.

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It’s not easy for us to f____1___someone who has ever hurt you or made you disappointed. However, several new studies say that it could be good for your health. When you think of forgiveness, you probably don’t think of it as a healthy or m edical problem. On the other hand, studies p___2_____ that something like anger can change your well-being(身心状况).

When cartoon characters like the Incredible Hulk get angry, they change colors and often get special power. In the real world, anger is less obvious. Scientists say anger can be harmful to your p____3____ and mental health. Two new studies seem to show the same idea. The studies find that people who are able to forgive feel less s___4____, less back pain, and less depression.

They also have fewer headaches, l___5____ blood pressure(血压), and fewer problems on sleeping. So it doesn’t m___6______ if your anger is caused by the traffic or other things. Learning to let it go is important. Ways such as d___7_____ breath can help you a lot, or just ask yourself if it’s worth h___8_____yourself by staying angry with someone else. Forgiveness does not mean that you simply accept what happened and say it’s OK. Instead, it’s a way of making peace with yourself about what happened in the past.

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8. h__________ Education is not an end, but a means to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them; our purpose is to fit them for l___1___.

In many m___2___ countries it has for some time been fashionable to think that, by free education for all— whether rich or poor, clever or stupid—one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation. But we can a__3____ see that free education for all is not enough; we find it in such countries a far l__4____ number of people with university degrees than there are jobs for them to fill. Because of their degrees, they r___5___ to do what they think "low" work; and, in fact, work with the hands is thought to be dirty and shameful in such countries. But we have only to think a moment to understand that the work of a completely uneducated farmer is far more important than the work of a professor—we can live without education, but we will die if we have no food.If no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish

a___6____ from our houses, we should get terrible diseases in our town.

In fact, when we say that all of us must be educated to fit us for life, it means that we must be educated in such a way that, firstly, each of us can do whatever job is suited to his brain and a___7___ and, secondly, that we can realize that all jobs are n___8___ to society, and that it is very bad to be ashamed of one's work, or to scorn someone else's. Only such a type of education can be called valuable to society.

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