上海市各区2017-2018年初三英语一模汇编最新最全-首字母填空-已(2)

85. cut 86.impossible 87. besides

C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.(在短文的空格中填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给)：（14分）

Augie Dobson, a 9-year-old American boy is proud of his ability to speak Chinese. He has been studying the language for three year from Shanghai Community International School.

Augie is one of a group of three and took part in a drama performance competition. It was organized to e_____81_____ overseas students to understand Chinese culture.

Their play is based on Tang Dynasty (618-907) poet He Zhizhang’s “ Hui Xiang Ou Shu,” L____82____, the play got the second prize at yesterday’s ceremony.

“ Hui Xiang Ou Shu” means writing something after returning home. It describes an old man who left his hometown at a young age but feels like a s ____83____ when he returns a couple of years later.

Mrs Sun, a Chinese teacher in school said she tries to teach her pupils to sing and dance to the poem. “Children are interested in singing poems rather than just reciting t____84____.

Students at Shanghai Community International School now learn an ancient poem every day. “It’s difficult b ____85____ I ‘m trying to remember,” said Augie.

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5 The first prize went to drama “Kong Cheng Ji,” performed by students at Dulwich College Shanghai . Kong Cheng Ji, tells of Zhuge liang during the Three Kingdoms period (220-280). He had no army to protect and guard the city but m_____86_____ to make the enemy’s leader Sima Yi believe that the city was full of traps and ambushes(埋伏). As a result, Sima gave up.

Li Zihao, 9, plays Sima in the drama. Li is a fan of chengyu, Chinese four-character idioms(四字成语).

“I’ve downloaded an app about telling stories with chengyu, and he loves it. I think chengyu is a very s____87____ and important parts of Chinese culture. Four words alone can mean a lot, and chengyu shows the great wisdom of old Chinese people.” said his mother.

KEYS: 81. encourage 82. Luckily 83. stranger 84.them

85. but 86. managed 87.special

C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words （在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给）（14分）

The exams were just over and the summer vacation just started.

Now Keven was free like a bird. Suddenly the doorbell rang. It was his

cousin, Max.‘Hiii!’ screamed Max,‘I have come to stay here for the

holidays.’

The next days were a____81____ for Kevin. After breakfast

Kevin decided to do a painting. He took out all his art supplies and started painting beautiful scenery. When he nearly finished it, Max entered the room with a Cola bottle. He slipped on some water and spread Cola all over the painting. It was c____82____ destroyed. The next day was even worse. Max put Kevin’s best pair of shoes into the washing m achine along with the clothes.

One day Kevin was going through the newspaper when some interesting news caught his a____83____. He read it aloud ‘The world famous philatelist （集邮家）Dick Brown’s stamps were stolen last week in his town. Several other stamp robberies also have taken place and police suspect that all the robberies are l____84____.’

Kevin had a nice stamp collection and it was with his friend Allan. He decided to get his

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6 stamp album back as he felt it would be much s____85____ with himself. But Ke vin couldn’t go, so he decided to spend Max to get his album. Kevin gave Max the address of Allan’s and Max started. Max soon came back with the album and when Kevin checked it he found that it was not his album. It contained valuable stamps. Actually Max had gone to another house by mistake and he had knocked on the door but no one a____86____. He found the door unlocked, so he went in. He found an album which looked like Kevin’s and brought it back.

Kevin doubted that it might be the stolen album probably belonging to Dick Brown. Kevin made c____87____ with the police. A week later, Kevin and Max got reward for finding Dick Brown’s album.

‘I will never be angry at Max,’Kevin thought.

KEYS: 81. awful 82. completely 83. attention 84. liked

85. safer 86. answered 87. contact

C.Fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺。每空格限填一词，首字母已给)（共14分）

Have you ever eaten at a restaurant that seizes Western food? If

so, do you remember what the menu looked like? Western restaurant

menus are quite different from Chinese restaurant menus. But how are

they different? Most Western restaurant menus do not have as many p___81____

as Chinese ones do. In some fancy Western restaurants, the menus might not have any pictures at all.

But most Western menus show a list of ingredients for each dish. If you order a burger, the menu might tell you that the burger has cheese, ketchup and mustard (芥末).The menu can also tell you how the food is cooked---for example, w____82_____it is fried or steamed.

Western restaurants use many different methods to design their menus and make them

more a_____83_____. In fact, there is a whole industry called “menu engineering”, according to the BBC. Menu engineers are experts at designing menus. Their menus can i____84____sales and