初三首字母填空练习.doc

初三首字母填空练习1、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词The continent（洲） Antarctica is the most southern area of land on the Earth and is mostly covered with ice. People have never wanted to l  67   there because of its coldest temperature. But now scientists from all over the w  68   come to study the ice to learn more about the Earth’s history.    Some scientists live on Antarctica for part of the y  69  . But they don’t usually stay there for more than six months b  70   there are six months of light and six months of darkness.Antarctica usually has a good deal of f  71   weather without any wind at all. The strong winds are usually only in some parts of it. It is also i  72   to learn that it isn’t very wet there. There is very l  73   snow or rain. It snows on the ice in winter, but at other times Antarctica is d  74  , just like the Sahara Desert.    In winter the sea around Antarctica freezes (结冰) for t  75   of kilometres. But scientists tell us that the earth is getting w  76  . So in the future, there may be less ice in the Antarctic sea. When that happens, our weather will never be the same again.参考答案：67. live  68. world  69. year  70. because  71. fine  72. interesting  73. little   74. dry   75. thousands  76. warmer2、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries. In fact, an English dictionary you u  72    today wasn’t made until the Qing Dynasty. Three men did most of the important e  73   work on dictionary. They spent nearly all their l  74   trying to collect words for their dictionary. For them, it was a wonderful journey. The largest dictionary in the world is Oxford English Dictionary. The i   75   for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857. Twenty-two years later, Oxford University asked James Murray to b   76   the editor of its new dictionary.    Murray had never been to college. At the age of fourteen, he left his village school in Scotland and taught h  77   while working in a bank. Later he became a great teacher. After Oxford gave him the job, Murray had a small house b 78   in his garden to do the work. Every morning, Murray got out of bed at five o’clock and w 79    in the small house several hours before breakfast. Often he would work into the night. Murray h  80   to finish the new dictionary in ten years. But after five years, he was still adding words for the letter “A”! He worked on the dictionary u   81   he was very old. Forty-four years later, in 1928, other editors finished the dictionary.参考答案：72. use    73. early    74. lives  75. idea  76. be/become  77. himself  78. built      79. worked    80. hoped      81. until3、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

Do you enjoy climbing mountains? I’d like to tell you a true story about John and Peter. They were b   67    mountaineers(登山者). As John was experienced, he was always asking Peter to copy his example. “Would you like to stand on the t   68   of the world, Peter?” “Of course. It has already b   69    my dream,” Peter answered.    On a sunny morning, the two men started for the top of Mount Qomolangma. After they climbed over one of the most d   70     slopes(斜坡), they found a man lying in the snow. “He’s going to d   71   ,” Peter looked at John and said, as if he would help the man. “ Leave him by himself and just follow me! But if you bring the burden(累赘)with you, I’m a   72   you will lose your life.” John warned Peter. Then he turned around and walked forward a  73 . It was too cold. After thinking for a w  74 , Peter made up his mind to help the dying man. He carried the man on his back and made his way forward. Little by little, Peter’s temperature made the man w  75   . The man came to himself! And soon he could move all by himself. Together they moved side by side.    About two hours later, they kept up with John. To their surprise, they found that John was almost d   76    in the snow. He had been frozen to death.参考答案：67. both     68. top    69. been/become  70. dangerous   71. die 72. afraid    73.alone/again   74. while     75. warm     76. dead/dying4、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang completed a spacewalk 43 hours after the launch(发射) of Shenzhou-7. It is a breakthrough(突破) in history in our country’s great space program.    Zhai Zhigang went out of Shenzhou-7 at 4:43 p.m. o  67   September 27, 2008. He waved to us as well as the whole world. All the Chinese felt e  68   at that moment. Many people watched the spacewalk on TV or on the I  69  . They c  70 their hands and cheered. “Shenzhou-7 reports: I’m now outside the spacecraft. I feel well. I am here greeting the Chinese people and people of the whole world,” Zhai Zhigang r  77   to the ground control in China. Then another astronaut Liu Boming handed Zhai Zhigang a Chinese n  72   flag. Zhai Zhigang waved the red flag outside the spaceship. The t  73   astronaut called Jing Haipeng was monitoring the spaceship inside.    After the 20-minute spacewalk, Zhai Zh。