2022-2023学年牛津译林版英语期中复习专项——短文首字母填空（含答案）

牛津8B 期中复习专项12题
——短文首字母填空
专项训练要求：根据短文内容及首字母提示,写出所缺单词,使短文完整、通顺。每组5空共5分，限时6分钟。
一、The lives of the Inuit people have changed a lot over the last 30 years.They used to live in igloos in winter, but today many of them live in 1. h_______ in small towns. They used to hunt seals. They ate the meat and 2. m_______clothes from the fur. Many of them still wear sealskin clothes today because they are very warm. Remember that the weather is very cold for many 3. m_______ of the year. Today many Inuit people ride snowmobiles. These machines can travel long distances(距离) in a short time. In the past, it took them days or weeks to travel the same distance.
Inuit children never went to school, and they learnt 4. e_______ from their parents. Now like all North Americans, they go to school for about ten years. Life is not as 5. h_______ as it used to be, but many of the older Inuits hate modern life and want to go back to the old days.
二、Iceland has a short summer which lasts from June to August. The long winter starts from September and ends 1. n_______ May. Summer in Iceland is a golden season for tourists. Every year, people from all over the world come here to see the beautiful sights and 2. e_______ the exciting whale-seeing.
In winter, when people in Iceland complete their 3. d_______ work, they will have a lot of special activities to spend the long dark night. Skating, riding snow motorbikes and having parties can really make an exciting night.
Because of a long cold winter, Iceland has a short growing season. The food 4. p_______ was always a headache for Iceland in the past. People there had to buy most of their food from other countries. Later, when farmers learned to use lights and underground heat to grow crops all year round in the greenhouse, things changed a lot.
Living in 5. s_______ a nice environment, most people in Iceland live a happy life.
三、When talking about the Chinese food going 1. a_______ 　, you can’t forget luosifen.To make it, people should boil rice noodles with sour bamboo shoots, dried tofu skin, fresh vegetables and peanuts in river snail soup. The special taste mostly 2. c_______ from the sour bamboo shoots.
In the 1970s, luosifen was 3. j_______ a street snack in Liuzhou. People outside of the city knew little about it. It became an intangible cultural heritage of Guangxi. Now luosifen has become more and more 4. p_______ across China. And even people from other 5. c_______ like America, Australia, Germany and so on can also enjoy the food.
四、My grandfather said that London in the 1950s was a terrible place to live because the air 1. p_______ was so serious. There were many 2. f_______ and they released a lot of smoke. This smoke caused heavy black fog in the sky. The people of London called this “smog”.
Sometimes the smog was so thick that people could not see at all. Taxis and buses could not go anywhere as it was too dangerous to drive. The smog was also 3. h_______ to people’s health, and some people found that it was difficult to 4. b_______ .
Soon after that, the 5. g_______ made new laws against the pollution, and the air got much cleaner. Today it is clean and we never see smog in London.
五、Charlie is a good boy. But he always makes mistakes, and his classmates often laugh at him. This 1. m_______ him very sad.
One day, to his classmates' surprise, Charlie got a high score in a test. Everyone thought he was a 2. h_______ , but he found this was a mistake: The test paper was not his. Charlie didn't want to lie and told the truth.
On the last day of school, everyone had to choose a reading partner for a book report. A girl 3. n_______ Heather chose Charlie. Heather is a nice girl, and everyone likes her. When Charlie asked her 4. w_______ she chose him, the girl said, “It's because you are caring and honest. Although you are careless sometimes, you are working 5. h_______ all the time. And I think you have changed a lot since this term.”
After other students knew this conversation, they also began to make friends with Charlie.
六、One day, Tom and Bill went out for a walk. They saw many people gathering there and went up to have a look. Oh dear! There was a cow lying in the 1. m_______ of the road. It would not move. The cars and buses could not get past.
Then a policeman came. “2. W_______ cow is this ” he asked. “It belongs to me,” said a farmer. “But I can't move it. It has stayed here for half an hour.” The policeman and the farmer did 3. t_______ best to move the cow, but it would not move. Tom and Bill laughed, but the drivers there were 4. w_______ .
“Give him a cabbage!” Tom said. “That's a good idea!” said the farmer. Soon he found a cabbage and showed it to the cow. When the cow saw the cabbage, it was attracted to 5. r_______ after the farmer at once. All the cars and buses could get past at last.
七、One day, Sam went to visit Mr Brown, a great teacher, who was getting old and sick. He hoped that Mr Brown would share what he had learned over the years with him.
Mr Brown said that time waits for no man. So we should not waste time. Instead, we should do something 1. m_______ . Then Sam wanted to know what strength Mr Brown thought was the most powerful. Mr Brown said, “From the 2. b_______ , I wanted to have the strength to change the world. But gradually, I realized that I could never make it.”
Now at this age, he finally realized what kind of strength is the most powerful. “It's the strength to change myself and 3. a_______ others.”
Many people around us think that if others can change, they will feel better. 4. H_______ , what we need to know is that change needs to 5. s______with ourselves.
八、Once a king had a pet monkey. The monkey was a fool, but the king treated him as a friend.
One afternoon, the king said to the monkey, “I'm so tired that I will 1. r_______ .” The monkey sat beside the king to keep watching for him.
Then a fly came into the room and sat on the king's nose. 2. B_______ the king was sleeping, the monkey swayed it away. But the fly only went away for a short time and came back on the king's nose 3. a_______ . The monkey was made very 4. a_______ . He shouted, “I am sure to kill you!”
Then he took up a sword and ran after the fly. As the fly sat on the king's nose again, the monkey hit it with all his strength.
To the foolish monkey's 5. s_______ , the fly flew away without any harm, but the king was badly wounded.
九、This is a story about the well-known millionaire Rockefeller, and it was told by a friend of his. This friend said that 1. t_______ Rockefeller gave away a lot of money, he was very mean about small sums of money. One day, he wanted to stay in a hotel in New York and asked for the cheapest room the hotel had. Rockefeller said, “What is the 2. p_______ of the room ” The manager told him the price.
“Is that the lowest priced room you have I will rest in this hotel by 3. m_______ and only need a small room.”
The manager said, “That room is the smallest and cheapest one we have.” He added, “But why do you 4. c_______ a poor room like that When your son comes here, he always orders our most5. e_______ room. But yours is our cheapest one.”
“Yes,” said Rockefeller. “But his father has made a lot of money while mine hasn't.”
十、Many people like to travel during their holidays. They don’t like to stay at home. They want to go to different places to see something different or exciting. During the holidays, trains, buses and planes are all very 1. b_______ . So it’s not easy to buy train or plane tickets. Many people take their cars or campers for 2. t_______ .
Last winter holiday, my family went to the countryside by car. There was too much traffic on the road, so we had to move very 3. s_______ . It took us about an hour to get there. After we got there, we came to a park. It was beautiful. We thought it was a good place for a 4. p_______ . We prepared food, fruit and drinks, and we began to eat. Suddenly, a strong wind blew and soon it started to rain. We had to run back to our car and have our picnic in the car. Then we 5. r_______ home. What a sad trip!
十一、Mr Ford saw a nice sweater in the shop window. It was very 1. c_______ . So he bought one. When he went back home, he put on the sweater. It was all right, and he felt very happy. In the afternoon, he went out to work in his garden. It suddenly began to 2. r_______ , and Mr Ford had to run into his house. He ran 3. q_______ , but he still got wet. Then his sweater 4. s_______ to shrink(缩水). It got smaller and smaller. Mr Ford tried to take it off, but he couldn’t. In the end, with the 5. h_______ of his wife, he got out of the sweater. Mrs Ford laughed and said, “You bought a cheap thing, but ...”
十二、Reading for pleasure is the easiest way to become a better 1. r_______ in English. It is also the most important way. Some students say they don’t want to read for pleasure. They want to use their time to learn the 2. r_______ of the language and new words. Many experts say pleasure reading is very important for English learning. Dr Stephen Krashen, a famous expert on language learning, says that pleasure reading 3. h_______ you learn many important things about English. Students learn more grammar and more words when they read for pleasure. They also learn more about good writing. Dr Krashen tells us that pleasure reading helps each student in a 4. d_______ way. Each student needs to learn something different. Pleasure reading makes it 5. p_______ for each student to learn what he or she needs.
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Pollution, factories, harmful, breathe, government
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relax. because. again. angry. Surprise
though. price. myself. choose. Expensive
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cheap. rain. quickly. started. Help
reader. rules. helps. different. possible