首字母填空专项训练1Li Ming is a middle student. He is one of the t_____ students in his class. He likes reading very much. He reads f_____ and science books as well. His school h____ a very nice library. He often b_____ books and reads there.Li Ming h_____ has a lot of books at home. Most of them were given to him as p______ by his parents and friends. He also bought some new books himself. He takes care of books. He takes e____ more care of the library books. He never makes them d____. He always r_____ them in time. He knows they are r_____ by many students.2One Sunday afternoon Peter put on his hat, took hi stick and went to the park. He w____ for half an hour and felt a little tired. He saw a chair u____ a big tree and went towards it. S______ he saw a man in front of him walking towards the chair too. He s_____ to run for fear that the man would take the seat b____ him. When he saw a man running towards the chair, that man b____ to run too. But Peter ran even f______ and soon got ahead of him. That man ran after him and told him loudly not to sit down. But Peter did not pay any a______. That man came up. Peter saw he was a workman of the park. He had a b____ in his hand. It said, “WET PAINT” How s_____ Peter was!3A lady once wrote a long story and sent it to a famous editor. After a few weeks the story was r_____ to her. The lady was angry. She wrote to the editor:“Dear sir,Yesterday you sent b_____ a story of mine. How do you know that the story is not g____ You did not read it. B____ I sent it to you. I pasted together pages 18, 19 and 20. This was a t____ to see whether you would r_____ read the story. When it came back yesterday, the pages were s____ pasted together. Do you read all the s____ this way”The editor wrote back.“Dear madam,At breakfast when I open an egg, I don’t have to eat a___ the egg in order to find out it is b____.”4Not every student in the United States speaks English. When Li Dayou was in s_____ in New York, his o____ language was Chinese. He could not understand the l_____ because his teachers did not speak Chinese. Li Dayou complained to the Supereme Court. The court a_____ with Li Dayou and ruled that all s______ must give the special help to students who do not speak English.Today students like Li Dayou r_____ special help until they learn e_____English. If they speak Chinese, Japanese, o___ any other language, they usually have teachers who can e______ their lessons in their own languages. In many American schools several languages are u_____ in the classrooms.5Many people live and work in areas where the weather is usually p_____. They expect the summers to be warm and the winters c____. There tare some places, however, where the weather is severe. In some of the northern and eastern states it may s____ so much that cars and homes are n____ buried and p____ are not able to go to work or to a____ school until the roads are cleared. The p____ is just the opposite during the summer. The t______ may be so high in a few areas that people can d___ little more than complain about the weather.6There are groups of young people in many places who give their t____ to help others. For example, they do the shopping for people who are s____ or old. Often these people are very l_____ and are thankful for some company. They enjoy having someone to t____ to from time to time. At the university there was such a g____. Ally j____ it and helped many old people in this way. Then a new p_____ was introduced. The students o_____ decorate old people’s homes if the local government p___ for the paint, brushes and paper. After some d______ they all agreed.7Xiao Kang is a first year college student. He is now in his home village for the summer holidays. A_____ is the hottest month in Guangdong and it is time for the r____ harvest. He is h____ his father every day from morning till n____. Sometimes they go on w____ after dark by the l_____ of their tractors. For the harvest, they have to work l____ hours, though they have a lot of f____ machines. They are very tired of c_____, but they are happy. They are s____ that they will make a lot of money.8My friend in New York had a beautiful black cat, Villiam. He s_____ his days outside and came indoors at night. One cool October evening, he disappeared. My friend looked for him e______, but could not find him. The following spring, however, Villiam a______, looking healthy and clean. E_______ was back to normal, until that autumn, when Villiam disappeared a____. The next spring, he r_____. My friend w_____ where Villiam had been. At last he found the a______. A neighbour of his told him, “My h_____ and I hate to see the black out in the cold, so we take him to Florida every w_____.”9Have you heard of the Lascaux Cave and the famous pictures there In 1941, a French schoolboy, Marcel, and three of his f______ visited a hill near the village of Montignac. Suddenly Marcel’s dog disappeared d_____ a hole in the rocks. The hole was dark. Maybe ti was d______ there. ButMarcel went into it a______. He found his dog. Marcel and his friends decided to go down there t_____ the next day. The boys returned the next morning with r____, candles and food. They c_____ into the hole and came to a big cave. They found pictures of animals on the w____. These pictures were d_____ there over 20,000 years ago. The Lascaux Cave has been f_____ ever since.10Flies are one of the most dangerous enemies of man. They are dangerous because they c____ diseases. Flies do not care whether the food they eat is dirty or clean. The food they like best is o_____ the dirtiest that can be f____. Then they may f_____ into a house where good clean food is kept and begin to walk all over it and eat it. Soon the good clean food b_____ unfit for people to eat. Often a p_____ who is preparing food does not r______ that it is unfit for people to eat, so the food is put on the t_____ and e_____. Those who eat such food become dangerously i___. That’s why we must get rid of flies.11When we read about great men who have done wonderful things, we often find that many of them began their l_____ in poor homes. Very f____ of them were children of rich people. George Stephenson was one of s_____ men.When George was only eight years old, he had to go to work on a farm instead of going to school because his p_____ were poor. Later he went towork in a coal mine. He worked d_____ the day and went to study in a n_____ school in the evening. By hard work and study, he made h_____ and engineer. At last he invented the railway engine. It could p____ carriages full of people and trucks full of goods and it could move a_____ rails quite fast and s_____.12Very often young people dream not of owning a car but of having a motorcycle. A motorcycle takes l____ money to buy and to operate. And w____ a little gasoline it can run for hours. People with a motorcycle can get to w_____ they want to go very fast. Motorcycle are also convenient to p_____. If there is no space on the street, people sometimes p____ them onto the grass or l_____ them beside their houses. Some people l_____ the noise almost as m____ as the speed. They may feel like their grandparents did when they r____ a fast horse. The motorcycle may be called the horse of m_____ times.13A woman sat by herself in a movie theater. As she was waiting for the movie to b_____, she noticed that the theater was very crowded but the two seats next to her were e_____.Suddenly a large man with a big fur coat walked down the aisle, sat down and placed the fur on the s_____ next to her.When the l_____ went out, the fur coat began to m____, and the womanrealized it was not a coat b___ a large dog. He was sitting u__ in the seat, and watching the movie screen with great i____. As soon as the movie started, the dog began to nod his head and beat his paws in perfect time to the m_____ of the movie. He seemed to enjoy e_____ so much.14Around you is a strange and wonderful world that you cannot see. Billions and billions of things l____ in this unseen world. These very s____ living things are called microbes. They are in the water you d____ and in the food you e___. They are in the a___ you breathe and in the g_____ under your feet. Microbes are almost everywhere in great n_____. The world of microbes is so small that it cannot be seen by h_____ eyes alone, but you can see them with the help of a microscope, b_____ a microscope can make invisible things b_____ enough to be seen.15Would your mother like to have a machine do all her housework Don’t laugh! There may be s____ a machine within the next ten y____. A professor from England says that some day many f____ will be able to buy a robot for $2,000. The machine would look l____ a box that h_____ mechanical a____ and three legs. It would be able to set the table, m____ the beds, push a vacuum cleaner to p____ up dust, and prepare vegetables.The professor said, “I wouldn’t want to t____ the machine to cook-- because h_____ enjoy doing that.”16Every December millions of Christmas cards go through the post. There are pictures of stars and snow or Christmas t____. In these days it is hard to think of a Christmas w_____ Christmas cards. Yet little over a hundred and fifty years ago there were n____ at all. Here is just one story of the way in which they started.Some boys of those days who were at boarding schools had to write a special piece of English at Christmas t____. This was sent to their p_____ so that they could see how the boys’ work was during the year.Young people like to make little d______ on the paper when they write letters or poems. These boys were the s____. They used to draw little pictures all r_____ the writing. Some times they coloured them, and after a time the pictures became more i______ than the writing. These were the f____ Christmas cards.17I found his house according to the address. When themaid let me in, I saw and old man reading a book in a c____ by the window. I made a short self-introduction and was a____ to sit down. I talked with him for half an hour and l____ more about him.When his was a child, he became i____ in reading. He always c______ a little book in his pocket and reads it every minute he can find. He is often s____ reading while he is waiting for buses, doctors, haircuts, playsto begin or something to h_____. His f_____ even find him reading in the toilet. That is h_____ he finds his time for reading. That is w____ he is able to read so many books.18Every person has two sets of teeth. The first set b_____ to grow when you are over six months old. The second set grows form the age of six u____ you are about twenty-one.To help your teeth grow s_____, you must drink enough milk and eat green vegetables. Then your body will have the right c_____ to build teeth.You should brush your teeth after each meal, so that the few bits of food on or b_____ them can be cleaned out. If you c_____ brush your teeth after eating, rinse them with water.If ther is a hole in your tooth, go to the dentist and he or she will fill it. If you don’t h_____ it filled, the hole will grow l____ and the tooth may have to be t_____ out. It it better to keep all your second set of teeth for as l_____ as possible.19It was time for supper. Mrs Smith shouted, “D_____ ready!” Mr Smith came down. They waited at the table for some time but thir son d____ show up. Mr Smith became angry and went u_____. When he entered his son’s room, he was surprised to see him l____ on the floor, reading a book a_____. He told his son to get up. T____ the boy would not stop reading ,he had tor____. Mr Smith picked up the book to see what it was a_____. The boy came down to the dining-room, but his father didn’t f_____. The boy and his mother waited and waited but Mr Smith didn’t come. Why He was s____ in his son’s room,reading that book.20One hot sunny afternoon three boys were walking on a c____ road. They were going to the river to swim. On their way they saw an old bull eating grass slowly and q____ inside a wooden fence. One boy picked a stone and t_____ it at the bull. He shouted,”Look! How foolish that old bull is!”The boys l_____ loud and walked on. Soon they came to the riverside and got into the water. They had a wonderful time. L_____ they climbed up a tree to pick fruit. They a____ many and filled thir pockets with m_____. Then they started to climb down. To their surprise, they saw and old bull standing down b____. It was the bull they had seen inside the fence. The bull looked a____ at them. The boys were afraid to get down. It was now their t____ to look foolish.21My father was in the living room watching TV when Mum c____ out from the kitchen. “What do you want for d____-- hamburger o___ chicken”“Anything you pick is fine with me,”a____ Dad. “Not really,”Mum went on, “What would you rather have” Again my father said that a______ that made her happy would make him h_____. So she spent the next five minutesinsisting that he should c_____. Dad finally g____ in. “All right. Let’s have hamburger.”With that, Mum ran in from the k______ and said, “What’s the matter You don’t like m____ chicken”22There are robots all around us. Some do very hard jobs l_____ flying planes and driving underground trains. And some do one easy job.When an automatic washing machine is t____ on, water pours in. The machine waits u____ the water is hot before w______ the clothes. It d____ this by“feedback(反馈)”. I____ about what is happening is “feedback”into the r_____ to tell what to do next.Our eyes and ears are our feedback．They tell us what is g_____ on around us. Some robots are like p_____ in two ways. They work and they have feedback.23Last night I went to the Grand Theatre. I was very surprised to see that it was so bright and so beautiful. The huge building was like a p____ made of glass. I looked here and there for some time. When I e____ the theatre, the play had already started. I was not a_____ to get in. I had to wait with other late-comers in the rest-room until the first act e____. I m___ the beginning, but I still enjoyed every m______ of it. During the play, I saw two neighbours of mine in front me. What a so mall world! I did not speak to them. Their seats were five rows away and e_____ was looking atthe stage and listening to a_____. When the play was over, I tried to find them. But there were so many people and I l____ them in the crowd. So I had to go home a ____.24A new car factory will be put up in our city. It will not be built in the c_____ of the city, but in the suburbs. The project was a____ on last month and it will be c_____ by 2003. Many people think that it is good n____ for the people of the city, because it can bring a grat many j____ to them. New b_____ will be started int he city, so there will bu many offices, factories and other buildings for more new companies. New roads will be built, too. Cars will be t_____ to many parts of the country. The port near the city will also be o____ to foreign ships in order to send cars abroad by sea. However, some people are a_____ that the factory will b____ noises and pollution to the quiet and clean city.25There are some differences in pronunciation,spelling and usage b____ American English and British English. Sometimes, different words are u____ for the same thing. Some times, the same word is p______ differently. And ways of expressing some i____ vary slightly. If you want to learn English b____, you should know these differences.Languages are changing and s____ is English. American English has changed o_____ the centuries. I is really a mixture of different l_______.Most of the words and expressions come from British English and some are from s____ languages as French and German. And some are e____ form Chinese.26One day I took several pairs of shoes to the shoemaker to be fixed. After a week, I p_____ them and put them away. Four months later, my husband and I were invited to dinner. I took a pair of shoes I hadn’t w____ since they were repaired. I put one shoe on my right foot, and then I put the other on my left. But it f____ as if it was on the w____ foot. Then I thought of the s_____. Thought I was sure he wouldn’t r_____ me after such a long time, I called him, “Thank goodness, you f____ called!”He asid excitedly. “An angry woman has t_____ me for months!”27One town of eleven hundred people took part in an experiment r____ by a watch factory. The factory wanted to l_____ how much people needed clocks and watches. For two days and nights no one u_____ a clock or a watch. The people there “parked”their watchers. All p_____ clocks were covered with plastic or paper. No church bells r____. And the steam whistle that usually b____ at noon was q_____.When the experiment was over, the news reporters t_____ 167 persons. They said they had become w_____ when they didn’t know the real clock t_____. Many weren’t sure whether they were hungry or not.28Once there was an old man in India. He had a c____ monkey and the old man liked him very much. One summer afternoon , the old man was s______ in his garden with the monkey sitting beside his b____. Several flies came. The monkey drove them away. Soon they r______. The monkey drove them away a_____. The flies came back and the monkey drove them away. This h______ five or six times and the monkey got very angry. He jumped up and f_____ a stone in the garden. When he saw a fly resting on the e_____ of the old man’s nose, he didn’t try to drive it away. Instead,he hit it with the stone. He killed the fly but he also b____ the old man’s nose.29Many things cannot be enjoyed without friends but r_____ can. When we are sitting at home, we can’t t____ around the world. We can understand the r_____ for thousands of things. We can l_____ to people who lived hundreds or even thousands of years ago. Although we may not be VIPs, we can become f____ of great men. Only books can give us such p_____. Those who cannot enjoy them are p_____ men; those who enjoy them get knowledge and h______ from them and are able to be f____ men.30Christopher is interested in football and enjoys g___ to watch a football match. So most winter Saturday afternoons he puts on his old raincoat and l_____ the house at 12:30 so as to a_____ early. He goes by bus and gets off the bus at the football ground. Even if it may be raining,he finds thousands of people already waiting in a long q_____ outside the gates. Sometimes, if ti is raining too h_____ for him to enjoy himself, he watches another match on t_____ instead of going out. He likes to spend Saturday evening r_____ about football matches on the back p____ of the newspaper. Some people like to spend the evening sitting in noisy pubs, but Christopher p_____ his comfortable and quiet sitting-room. He feels as if he is a completely happy man until work s____ again on Monday morning.31Jim walked into a store which had a sign outside: “Second-hand clothes b____ and sold.”He was carrying and old pair of pants and asked the owner of the store. “How much will you g____ me for these” The man looked at them and then said r____, “Two dollars.”“What!” said Jim. “I had g_____ they were worth at least five.”“No,”said the man, “they aren’t worth a penny more than two dollars.”“Well,” said Jim, taking two dollars out of his pocket, “Here’s your money. These pants were h____ outside your store with a _____ tag that s____ $, but I thought that was too much money, so I wanted to make s_____ how much they were really worth.”Then he walked out of the store with the pair of pants and disappeared before the s______ store owner could think of a_____ to say.32Mike was a small boy, and he hates soap and water. Three of four t_____ every day his mother said to him, “Mike, your hands are very d____ again. Go and wash them.”But Mike never r____ washed them well. He only put his hands in the water for s_____ and then took them out again.Mike’s aunt lived in another city. One day she came to stay with Mike’s parents, and she b____ her small son, Ted, with her. Ted was a y____ younger than Mike, and he didn’t like soap and water, either.The boys sat with their parents for a few minutes, then they went o_____. When they were a_____, Mike looked at Ted’s hands and then said p_____, “My hands are dirtier than y_____.”“Of course they are.”Ted answered angrily, “You are older than I.”33The redwood trees of Muir Woods near San Francisco are very famous. These trees are the tallest l_____ things in the world. The highest one is about 110 meters high and hundreds of others are n____ al tall.The redwoods are very o_____. Some of them are so tall and h_____ that they fall over after a thousand years, but many of them s_____ for two thousand years. When a tree falls, another one g______ in its place.Every year thousands of v_____ come to Muir Woods to see the redwoods. They walk for hours t____ the ancient forests, looking up and trying to see the t____ of these w_____ trees.。