1、 上海初三中考英語首字母填空專項練習一、firefighters or firemen play an important role in our daily life. in some places, firefighters usewatchtowers to look for smoke and fires, although they get a fire report by telephone. a hightower is still very u 67 for watching and guarding a place. fire fighters also make it a

2、placefor practice. they learn how to p 68 out fires from burning buildings. they try to c 69up the outside of the tower as fast as possible. they carry water hoses up to the fire. they practisecarrying imaginable victims down f 70 high ladders.there are reasons that firefighters are called for help.

3、 maybe a building or a forest is o 71 fire.a train accident happens and people are t 72 inside. still, people need to be rescued fromfloods or an earthquake. whenever there is an emergency situation, they can be seen f 73there.being a fire fighter needs a lot of t74 . in the first place, firefighter

4、s should know how toeducate the community （社區(qū)） by visiting schools, community centres and people in their ownhomes to p 75 fire and accidents from starting. they have to learn how to deal with differentdangerous situations. above all, its necessary for firefighters to exercise every day to be h 76an

5、d strong.二、man has a big brain. he can think and s 72languages. scientists once thought that man isntthe same as animals b 73 man can think and learn. they know now that dogs, monkeys andbirds can learn, too.they are beginning to u 74 that men are different from animals because they can speak.animal

6、s cant speak. they make much n 75 when they are afraid, or unhappy. apes( 猿) canlearn some things more quickly than man. one or two of them have learned a few words. but theycan not join words to make s 76 . they cannot think l 77 us because they have nolanguage. language is a wonderful thing. man h

7、as been a 78 to build a modern worldbecause he has language. every child can speak his own language very w 79 when he is fouror five, b 80 no animals learn to speak.how do children learn it? scientists dont really know w 81 happens inside our body whenwe speak. they only know that man can speak beca

8、use he has a brain.三、our dog, rex, used to sit outside our front gate and bark. every time he wanted to come into thegarden he would bark u 72 someone opened the gate. as the neighbours complained of thenoise, my husband s 73 weeks training him to press his paw on the latch (門閂) to let himselfin. re

9、x 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 barking so that someone would let him o 77 ! since then, he has developedanother bad h 78 . as soon as he opens the gate from the outside, he comes i79 the gard

10、en1 and waits until the gate shuts. then he sits and barks until someone lets him out. after this heimmediately lets himself in and begins barking a 80 . yesterday my husband removed the gateand rex got soa 81 that he disappeared. since then, we have not seen him.四、elizabeth lived with her six child

11、ren in a small house. one winter, there was a big flood and quitea f 72 houses were washed away, but elizabeths house was highe 73 to escape it.elizabeth took in one of the families which had lost everything. she shared her home until thefamily could build a 74 house. elizabeths friends could not un

12、derstand w 75 she wantedto give so much when she already had so many children to support.“well, ” elizabeth e 76 to her friends, “at the end of world w ar i, there was a poor woman ina town in germany. her husband had been killed in the war and she had a lot of children, just likem 77 now.”“the day

13、before christmas, this woman said to her children, we wont be a 78 to have muchfor christmas. im going to get just one p 79 for us all. now ill go and get it. she came backw 80 a little girl who had no parents. heres our present, she said to her own children.the children were more than excited to ge

14、t such a present. they welcomed the little girl warmly,and she g 81 up as their sister. i was that christmas present.”五、teenagers are very busy at school now and often forget to think about their diets and sports. thetruth is that healthy eating and regular exercise are t 67 ways to keep fit.d 68 yo

15、ur teenage years, it is important to give your body enough egirls need about 2,200 calories a day. usually boys need a bit m 70 , many doctors suggest,2,800 calories for teenage b 71 . 50% of your calories should come from rice, bread,69 it needs. youngvegetables and fruit. you also need to drink a

16、lot of water, 6 to 8 glasses a day. d 72 enoughwater will improve your dry skin and give you healthy body.physical a 73 , such as playing basketball and swimming, are something that can help tomake you look good, feel good and be healthy. experts ( 專家) suggest that teenagers spend at l74 30 minutes

17、exercising a day, five times a week.after you exercise a bit, your body produces something that makes you feel r 75andcomfortable. it can even help you sleep better at night and let you pyou study.76 more attention when六、years ago in scotland, the clark family had a dream. the couple worked and save

18、d, makingp_72_ for their nine children and themselves to travel to the usa. it had taken years beforethey saved enough money and got everything r_73_ for the trip.the whole family was excited about their new life. however, seven days b74they left forthe usa, the youngest son was bitten（咬）by a dog. t

19、he doctor treated the boy,2 b 75 because there was a possibility of rabie（s 狂犬?。? they would be kept away from othersfor fourteen days.the familys dream could not comet 76 . they would not be able to make the trip to americaas they had planned. watching the ship leave-without the clark family, the f

20、ather was quitea 77 with both his son and god for their bad luck.five days later, a piece of sad news s_ 78_ throughout scotland-the strong and powerful ship,titanic, had gone down, taking h 79of lives with it. the clark family was to have been onthat ship, but because the son was bitten by a dog, t

21、hey were left b 80 in scotland.when mr clark heard the news, he thanked his son for saving the family. he thanked the god fort 81a sad thing into a good one.although we may not always understand, all things happen for a reason.七、advertisements are everywhere! theyre on the radio and tv , in the news

22、papers and magazines,and on buses, and b 67 theyre on websites and mobile phonescompanies give theirproducts to film stars, pop stars and sports stars to u 68 so that fans will buy them in order tocopy the starsadvertisements have become so common that they arent w 69 any morewe dont likeadvertiseme

23、ntsso we try not to see themwe turn o 70computersthe advertisements on ourwe refuse to watch them on tv, or read them in magazines we no l 71 pay attention to theposters all around uswe dont copy the stars because we know maybe they dont r 72 likethe things they advertisethis means that advertising

24、companies need a new w 73 to sell their products they cantmake their products “cool” by advertising advertisements arent cool, and teenagers wont buythe things in advertisements j 74 because the advertisements say they are fashionable thelatest way to advertise is not to advertisei 75 of using stars, companies are using teenagers they pay them to tell their friends aboutnew productsteenagers dont want to dress like everyone else and buy the things that everyoneelse hasthey want to look d 76 and create their own