2009-2010学年初三英语中考任务型阅读和首字母填空专练

初三英语中考任务型阅读和首字母填空专练

练习一

A)根据短文内容，按要求答题。

The Canadian people are not all the same. There are many different groups. They came to Canada at different times. They came from different places. Many of them still live in different ways.

Long ago, only Native (土著的) Americans live in Canada. They arrived thousands of years ago. Today there are about fifty different American groups.

The Eskimos came after the Native Americans did. They have also been in Canada for a long, long time. Most Eskimos live in the north of Canada, where it is very cold.

The European settlers started arriving 450 years ago. Most came from France. They are a large group in Canada today. They follow French customs or ways of doing things. They speak French.

Later, most settlers came from England and Scotland. They speak English. Today more than half of all Canadians speak English.

Canadians have also come from Germany and Italy. There are smaller groups from other places, too.

You can see that different kinds of people are called Canadians. Many do not want to forget their own customs and languages. But they share a large country. They share a future in that country. They are all Canadians.

76. Who first came to live in Canada?

77. Where do most Eskimos live?

78. How long have the European settlers been in Canada?

79. What language do most Canadians speak today?

80. The Canadians look the same, don?t they?

B）根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

Yesterday I visited the Hong Shan Forest Zoo. I was s_81__ to find few people there. Zoos are very important places. They p___82 _ homes for many endangered animals. They also help to educate the public about caring f___83___ them. If we don?t s__84__ our zoos, they won?t have e__85 _ money to take care of so many fine animals. Therefore, people should go and visit the zoos m 86 often to learn about animals and help to protect them better.

H__87___, some people do think so. They think zoos are t___88___ places for animals to live. “I?ve visited a lot of zoos in my life, and I have never seen o__89__ I liked or one that was suitable for animals to live in.” Jenny said. …The animals are k___90 __ in small cages and can hardly move at all. What?s more, they are only given food once week. That?s terrible.”

练习二

A) 根据短文内容，在空格里填入恰当的词语。注意：每空一词。

Minoru Yamasaki was a well-known American architect (建筑师). He was born in 1912 in Seattle, Washington. His parents came from Japan. Minoru went to college to study architecture. Every summer he worked in a fish factory to help pay for college. Often he worked from four o'clock in the morning until midnight. He slept in a room with 100 other men. Later in life, Yamasaki remembered these times and was always good to his workers.

Yamasaki sometimes dreamed about his work. Once he woke up at three o?clock in the mornin g. He remembered a building that was in his dream. He got up and started to draw. Yamasaki used a new design for the buildings. These buildings are now the Century Plaza Hotel, and Tower in Los Angeles, California.

Yamasaki was different from other architects. His buildings give people a feeling of peace and happiness. Many of his designs have pools of water, flowers, and windows on the roof to let in light. He always designed buildings to please people. He wanted to give them a place away from the busy ways of modern life.

Yamasaki worked for several companies. But his success began when he started his own company. In 1956, he won the Architect?s First Honor Award for his design of an airport in St. Louis, Missouri. He won two more awards over the next five years. In 1962, he designed the World Trade Center in New York. It is very famous.

In 1993, a bomb exploded (炸弹爆炸) in the World Trade Center. But the buildings did not fall down because they had a good design.

Yamasaki had strong opinions about his buildings. They had to be built his way. He refused to change the design of his buildings, even if he lost a job.

Minoru Yamasaki died in 1986. He designed more than 300 buildings. People will enjoy the design and beauty of his buildings for a very long time.

The title A 62 American architect

Be born In 63 in Seattle, Washington

In college Studied 64 in college

Worked in a fish factory to 65 for college

66 a room with 100 other men and often stayed up very late until midnight

His design of buildings Made people feel 67 and happy

Had 68 opinions about his buildings

The World Trade Center didn?t fall down after a bomb explosion

Successful career Was not the 69 as other architects

Didn?t begin his successful career 70 he started his own company Won 71 Awards for his famous design before 1962 and designed over 300 buildings in his life

Date of death Died in 1986

B）根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

Elizabeth lived with her six children in a small house. One winter, there was a big flood and quite a f 72 houses were washed away, but Elizabeth?s house was high e 73 to escape it.

Elizabeth took in one of the families which had lost everything. She shared her home until the family could build a 74 house. Elizabeth?s friends could not understand w 75 she wanted to give so much when she already had so many children to support.

“Well, ” Elizabeth e 76 to her friends, “at the end of World War I, there was a poor woman in a town in Germany. Her husband had been killed in the war and she had a lot of children, just like m 77 now.”

“The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, …We won?t be

a 78 to have much for Christmas. I?m going to get just one p 79 for us all. Now I?ll go and get it.? She came back w 80 a little girl who had no parents. …Here?s our present, ?she said to her own children.”

“The children were more than excited to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl warmly, and she g 81 up as their sister. I was that Christmas present.”

练习三

A)注意：每空不超过2个单词。

It is December thirty-first, 2010, the time when the old year goes and the New Year is coming. Many Americans have parties at home and invite all their friends. Many of these events are noisy. People shout and sing. They often blow on small noisemakers when the New Year arrives at midnight. They kiss their husband or wife or the persons they are with. They dance to music. Other Americans spend a quiet evening at home. They drink champagne (香槟酒) at midnight to welcome the New Year.

Some people drink too much alcohol (酒) at New Year?s Eve celebrations. This can lead to terrible results if a person drinks too much and then drives a car. The National Safety Council (委员会) says hundreds of people die in road accidents during the holiday.

These years, people begin to realize the danger of accidents and start a new activity called the “designated driver”. One person among a group of friends drinks little or no alcohol during New Year?s Eve celebrations. Then this designated driver can safely drive the other people home. Many American cities also offer free service on New Year?s Eve to take people home safely.

Other Americans celebrate the coming of the New Year at events without alcohol. More than 220 American cities hold these First Night celebrations. Artists in Boston, Massachusetts started the tradition of First Night celebrations in theatres or museums in 1976. They wanted to celebrate the coming of the New Year. But they did not want to hold noisy drinking parties. So they organized music, art and other events to celebrate the holiday.

How Americans celebrate New Year’s Day

Ways to celebrate Celebrations with alcohol Celebrations without alcohol

62___ At home At theatres or 63

Activities Drinking parties with 64

Making very 65 noises

Kissing each other

Dancing to music

Organizing 66 or 67 events

Main problems Many accidents on the road 68 drink-and-drive

Ways of 69 the problems Making arrangements for some people not to 70 . So they can drive others home safely

71 free taxi service to take people home safely

B) 缺词填空：根据上下文和所给的首字母，补全空格内的词，使短文通顺。

June 5 is World Environment Day. This makes us pay more attention to our environment and the need to p it.

When Wang Boxuan, a Beijing high Schoolboy, uses up his exercise books, he does not t them away. Each one is stored at school with hundreds of exercise books given by other students. Then they are sold to a Beijing paper making factory.

The paper is recycled and u again by students and teachers in the school. At the same time, the money made from the sales goes towards schools in Inner Mongolia for p trees and grass. This place is one of the sources of the sandstorms that often attack Beijing d spring time.

Wang?s school is one of the schools in the capital that t part in the “green promise” environmental protection activity. So far, nearly 210,000 students have taken part in the activity, collecting more than 87 tons of waste paper.

“There are some environment p in the city, s as sandstorms.” said Wang. “We should do our duty and encourage others to do so as w .”

Our Vice-Premier(副总理) has w a letter to the teachers and students. In the letter, he encouraged them to go on supporting environmental protection.

练习四

A) 注意：每个空格只填一个单词。

There are some very good things about open education. This way of teaching allows the students to develop their interests in many subjects. Open education asks students to be responsible for their own education. The open classroom may help them to enjoy learning. Some students will be happier in an open education school. They will not have to worry about grades or rules.

But many students may not do well in an open classroom. For some students, if there are too few rules, they will do little in school. They will not make good use of open education. Because open education is so different from traditional education, these students may have a problem of getting used to making so many choices. For many students it is important to have some rules in the classroom. A few rules will help them. The last point about open education is that some traditional teachers do not like it. Many teachers do not believe in open education.

You now know what open education is. Some of its good points and bad points have been explained. You may have your own opinion about open education. The writer thinks that open education is only a good idea. It may not work very well in a real class or school. The writer believes that most students, but of course not all students, want and need to have some rules. They must be made to study some subjects. Many students are pleased to find subjects that they have to study interesting. They would not study those subjects if they did not have to.

Open Education

Definition（概念）Open education is a way of teaching which allows students to learn what they are in without many rules.

Advantages Open education makes students realize they are learning for _, not for others.

In open classrooms, many students don?t need to be about grades or rules.

Some students find happiness in open classrooms than in traditional classrooms.

Many students cannot prove themselves as in open classrooms as in traditional

classrooms.

There are so many for students to make that they can?t use open education properly.

Some teachers are not in support of such way of teaching.

The writer?s

about open education Open education is just a good idea, but in a real class or school it is so good. Some students would not study some subjects they have to.

B)根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词

Years ago in Scotland, the Clark family had a dream. The couple worked and saved, making p________ for their nine children and themselves to travel to the USA. It had taken years before they saved enough money and got everything r________ for the trip.

The whole family was excited about their new life. However, seven days b they left for the USA, the youngest son was bitten（咬）by a dog. The doctor treated the boy, b because there was a possibility of rabies （狂犬病）, they would be kept away from others for fourteen days.

The family?s dream could not come t . They would not be able to make the trip to America as they had planned. Watching the ship leave---without the Clark family, the father was quite a with both his son and God for their bad luck.

Five days later, a piece of sad news s_____ throughout Scotland---the strong and powerful ship, Titanic, had gone down, taking h of lives with it. The Clark family was to have been on that ship, but because the son was bitten by a dog, they were left b in Scotland.

When Mr Clark heard the news, he thanked his son for saving the family. He thanked the God for t a sad thing into a good one.

Although we may not always understand, all things happen for a reason.

参考答案

练习一

A) 81. Native Americans.

82. In the north of Canada.

83. For 450 years.

84. English.

85.No, they don?t.

B) 81. surprised 82. provide 83. for 84.. support 85. enough

86.more 87. However 88. terrible 89. one 90.kept

练习二

A）62. well-known/ famous/ great 63. 1912 64. architecture 65. pay 66. shared

67. peaceful 68. strong 69. same 70. until 71. three/ 3

B）72. few 73. enough 74. another 75. why 76. explained 77. me

78. able 79. present 80. with 81. grew

练习三

A) 62. Places 63. museums 64. friends 65. loud/big 66. music/music, art

67. art/other 68. because of 69. solving/dealing(doing) with 70. drink 71. Offering

B) 66-70 protect, throw, used, planting, during

71-75 take, problems, such, well, written

练习四

A) 62. interested 63. themselves 64. worried 65. more 66.Disadvantages

67.good 68. choices 69.opinion(s)/ idea(s) 70.not 71.unless

B) 72. plans 73. ready 74. before 75. but 76. true

77.angry 78. spread 79. hundreds 80. behind 81. turning