上海初三中考英语首字母填空专项练习Firefighters or firemen play an important role in our daily life. In some places, firefighters use watchtowers to look for smoke and fires, although they get a fire report by telephone. A high tower is still very u 67 for watching and guarding a place. Fire fighters also make it a placefor practice. They learn how to p 68 out fires from bur ning build in gs. They try to c 69 up the outside of the tower as fast as possible. They carry water hoses up to the fire. They practise carry ing imagi nable victims dow n f 70 high ladders. There are reas ons that firefighters are called for help. Maybe a buildi ng or a forest is o 71 fire.A train accide nt happe ns and people are t 72 in side. Still, people n eed to be rescued from floods or an earthquake. When ever there is an emerge ncy situati on, they can be see n f 73 there.Being a fire fighter n eeds a lot of t 74 .In the first place, firefighters should know how to educate the com mun ity （社区）by visit ing schools, com munity cen tres and people in their own homes to p 75 fire and accide nts from starti ng. They have to lear n how to deal with differe nt dangerous situations. Above all, it ' s necessary for firefighters to exercise everyida76o beand strong._ 、Man has a big brain. He can think and s 72 Ianguages. Scientists once thought that man isn ' t the same as ani mals b 73 man can think and lear n. They know now that dogs, mon keys and birds can lear n, too.They are beginning to u 74 that men are different from animals because they can speak.Animals can ' t speak. They make much 75 when they are afraid, or unhappy. Apes（猿）can learn some things more quickly than man. One or two of them have learned a few words. But they can not join words to make s 76 . They cannot think I 77 us because they have noIanguage. Language is a wonderful thing. Man has been a 78 to build a modern world because he has Ian guage. Every child can speak his own Ian guage very w 79 when he is four or five, b 80 no ani mals lear n to speak.How do childre n lear n it? Scien tists don ' tweal8/1 kno wappe ns in side our body whe nwe speak. They only know that man can speak because he has a brain.三、Our dog, Rex, used to sit outside our front gate and bark. Every time he wan ted to come into the garde n he would bark u 72 some one ope ned the gate. As the n eighbours compla ined of the noise, my husband s 73 weeks training him to press his paw on the latch （门闩）to let himself in. Rex soon became good at o 74 the gate.H 75 , when I was going out shopping last week, I n 76 him in the garden near the gate.This time he was bark ing so that some one would let him o 77 ! Since the n, he has developedano ther bad h 78 . As soon as he ope ns the gate from the outside, he comes i 79 the garde n and waits un til the gate shuts. Then he sits and barks un til some one lets him out. After this he immediately lets himself in and begi ns bark ing a 80 . Yesterday my husba nd removed the gateand Rex got soa 81 that he disappeared. Since the n, we have not see n him.四、Elizabeth lived with her six childre n in a small house. One win ter, there was a big flood and quite a f 72 houses were washed away, but Elizabeth ' s houee was high 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 un derwtan75 she wan ted to give so much whe n she already had so many children to support.“ Well, ” Elizalaeth76 to her friends, at the end of World War I, there was a poor woman ina tow n in Germa ny. Her husba nd had bee n killed in the war and she had a lot of childre n, just like m 77 now.“ The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, a 78 ‘ Wehwon rmiichefor Christmas. I ' m going to get jupt o7Q for us all. Now I ' ll go and get it. ' She came backw 80 a little girl who had no parents. ‘ Here ' s our present, ' she said to her own children." The childre n were more tha n excited to get such a prese nt. They welcomed the little girl warmly, and she g 81 up as their sister. I was that Christmas prese nt. ”五、Teen agers are very busy at school now and often forget to think about their diets and sports. The truth is that healthy eati ng and regular exercise are t 67 ways to keep fit.D 68 your tee nage years, it is importa nt to give your body eno ugh e 69 it n eeds. Young girls n eed about 2,200 calories a day. Usually boys n eed a bit m 70 , many doctors suggest,2,800 calories for teenage b 71 . 50% of your calories should come from rice, bread,vegetables and fruit. You also n eed to drink a lot of water, 6 to 8 glasses a day. D 72 eno ugh water will improve your dry skin and give you healthy body.Physical a 73 , such as playing basketball and swimming, are something that can help to make you look good, feel good and be healthy. Experts （专家）suggest that teenagers spend at l_ 74_ 30 minutes exercising a day, five times a week. After you exercise a bit, your body produces something that makes you feel r 75 and comfortable. It can even help you sleep better at ni ght and let you p 76 more atte nti on whe n you study.六、Years ago in Scotland, the Clark family had a dream. The couple worked and saved, making p _72一 for their nine childre n and themselves to travel to the USA. It had take n years before they saved eno ugh money and got everyth ing r _73_ for the trip.The whole family was excited about their new life. However, seve n days b 74 they left for the USA, the youngest son was bitten （咬）by a dog. The doctor treated the boy, b 75 because there was a possibility of rabies （狂犬病），they would be kept away from others for fourtee n days.The family ' s dream could not cdme76 . They would not be able to make the trip to Americaas they had pla nn ed. Watch ing the ship leave---without the Clark family, the father was quitea 77 with both his son and God for their bad luck.Five days later, a piece of sad n ews s_ 78_ throughout Scotla nd---the strong and powerful ship,Titanic, had gone down, taking h . 79 __ of lives with it. The Clark family was to have been onthat ship, but because the son was bitte n by a dog, they were left b 80 in Scotla nd.When Mr Clark heard the n ews, he tha nked his son for sav ing the family. He tha nked the God fort 81 a sad thing into a good one.Although we may not always un dersta nd, all things happe n for a reas on.七、Advertisements are everywhere! They ' re on the radipiiaitldeTnewspapers and magazines,and on buses, and b 67 . They' ren websites and mobile phones. Companies give theirproducts to film stars, pop stars and sports stars to u 68 so that fans will buy them in order to copy the stars. Advertiseme nts have become so com mon that they aren ' w 69 any more. We don' ltke advertisements. So we try notto see them. We turn o 70 the advertisements on our computers.We refuse to watch them on TV , or read them in magazines . We no l 71 pay attention to the posters all around us . We don ' t copy the stars because we know maybe they don r 72 like t the things they advertise.This means that advertising companies need a new w 73 to sell their products . They can ' t make their products“ cool ” by advertivergisements aren ' t cool, and teenagers won ' t buythe things in advertiseme nts j 74 because the advertiseme nts say they are fashi on able . Thelatest way to advertise is not to advertise .I 75 of using stars, companies are using teenagers . They pay them to tell their friends about new products . Teen agers don ' t want to dress like eveTreoelse and buy the things that every one else has . They want to look d 76 and create their own styles . Teenagers don ' t think it ' s cool tocopy the stars or buy things they ' ve seen in advertisements答案一：eful 68. put 69. climb 70. from 71.o n 72. trapped 73. fighti ng 74. trai ning75. preve nt 76. healthy答案二：72. speak 73. because 74. un dersta nd 75. no ise 76. sentences 77. like 78. able79. well 80. but 81. what答案三：72. un til 73. spent 74. ope ning 75. However 76. noticed 77. out 78. habit79. i nto 80. again 81. angry答案四：72. few 73. enough 74. another 75. why 76. explained 77. me 78. able79. prese nt 80. with 81. grew答案五：67. two 68. During 69. energy 70. more 71.boys 72. Drinking 73. activities74. least 75. relaxed 76. pay答案六：72. plans 73. ready 74. before 75. but 76. true 77.angry 78. spread79. hundreds 80. behind 81. Turning答案七：67 . buildings 68 . use 69 . working 70 . off 71 . longer 72 . Really 73 . way 74 . just75 . 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