七年级首字母填空练习((含答案)

根据首字母填空专项练习（含答案）

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Can animals be made to work for us ? Some scientists think that one day animals may be t____ to do a number of simple jobs .They s____ that in a film or on TV we

may see elephants , monkeys ,dogs ,bears ,or other animals doing a lot of things .If

you w_____ carefully , you may find that those animals are given something to eat in

return for d____ them . The scientists say that many d_____ animals may be taught to

do a number of simple jobs if they will get something to eat .

Of course, as we know , dogs can be used to guard a house ,and elephants can be used to do some heavy j___ . And we can also teach animals to work in

f____ .Apes ,for example have b____ used in America to help make cars and

scientists b_____ that these monkeys may one day get in crops and e____ drive

trains .

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may want to study to be animal doctors.They are often c“ vets ”. Many of

them work in animal h_____. Others may work on farms or at a z_____. Some study animal diseasesand try to find w_____ to keep the animals from getting i______.

They do studies in m_____ for animals.Vets listen to an animals ’ s h______. They check its ears, eyes, mouth and blood. They o______ on animals when they need to. They may give the animals shots(注射 ) and tell the pets’ o_____ what food is best.

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Only mother love is true love. It gives e_________ everything all his life.

When you are still a baby, mother takes good care of you as much as possible.

In your waking hours she always holds you in her arms. When you are ill,

she stops her work right now to look after you day and n__________ and forgets

about herself. When you are growing up day by day, she feels very happy.

When you are old e__________ to go to school, mother still looks after you all

the t_______ . On cold winter days, she always tells you to p_______ on more clothes.

She always stands in the wind waiting for you back from school every day. When you

hurry to leave home for school with little b_________ . She always feels worried

about you at home. She u________ knows about you study and spend much money

on your school things. When you do well at school , you will see the brightest

s__________ on her face. Mother can do everything for you day after day.

Mother is always ready to give everything she has to her children, not to receive.

What true love that is in the w________ ! We will r____________ Mother Love for

ever!

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When I was walking down the street one day , I s______ a small bag on the

ground . I picked it up and opened it to see w_______ I could find out the owner

name . There was n_______ inside it except some dollars and a picture of a woman

and a young girl about twelve years old . I put the photo back and took the bag to

the police station . Before I left , the policeman wrote down my name and my

a_______ . He thought the owner might want to thank me .

That evening I went to have dinner with my aunt and uncle . They had also asked

a young woman to have dinner with us . Her face was famil iar , but I couldn ’t

r_______ where I had seen her . D________ our talk , the young woman happened to

say that she had l_______ her bag that afternoon . All at once I remembered

w_______ I had seen her . She was the young girl in the photo . though she looked

now much o______ than the girl in the picture . She was very s_______ , of course ,

when I told her about the bag . After dinner we went to the police station and got back

her bag . The policeman said to me ,“ It’ s a wonderful thing . Youy foundthe not onl

bag , but also the owner of the bag .”

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Seumas Mcsporran is a very b____ man. He is 60 years old and he has thirteen

jobs. He is a postman , a policeman ,a fireman , a taxi driver , a school-bus driver , a

boatman ,an ambulance man , an accountant , a petrol attendant , a barman , and an

undertaker .Also , he and his wife , Margaret , have a shop and a small hotel.Seumas

l_____ and works on the island of Gigha in the west of Scotland. Only 120 people

live on Gigha but in s_____ 150 tourists come by b_____ every day.Every

weekday Seumas gets up at six and makes b_____ for the hotel guests. At eight he

drives the island ’ s children to s At nine. he collects the post from the boat and

delivers it to all the houses on the island. He also delivers the beer to the island

pub. Then he helps Margaret in the s_____ .He says：“ Margaret likes being

busy,too.We n_____ have holidays and we don’liket w_____ television. In the

evening Margaret makes supper and I do the accounts. At ten we have a glass of wine

and then we go to bed. P_____ our life isn’ t very exciting, but we”like it.

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Tim spent in a bookshop can be enjoyable . If you go to a good s________ , no

assistant will come near to you and say , “ CanI h______ you ?”You needn’buyt

a________ you don’ t want . You may try to find out where the book you want is . But

if you w_______ , the assistant will lead you there and then he will go away . It seems

that he is not interested i_____ selling any books at all .

There is a story which t_______ us about a good shop . A medical student found

a very useful book in a shop , but it is too expensive for him to b______ . He couldn’ t

get it from the library , e_______ . So every afternoon he went there to r______ a

little at a time . One day , however , he couldn’ t find the book from its usual place an

was leaving when he saw an assistant signing to him . To his s________ , the assistant pointed to the book in a corner , “ Iput it there so as not to be sold out . ” saidthe assistant . Then he let the student go on with his reading .

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( S=salesgirl ; H=Han mei )

S: Good morning. Can I help you ?

H:Yes. I ______ this blouse last week, but there's something wrong with it. When I _____ it, the colours ran. I can't _____ it now. I want you to _____ this blouse or give me my _____ back.

S:Let me see. Did you wash it in _____ water ?

H:Of course not.

S:It ______ as if it hasn't been washed following the _______ .Did you leave it in water ______ you washed it ?

H:No, I didn't do that, ______. I didn't put it cold water until I washed it.

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When you go to England you may find the traffic there is different from ours. As a f_______ you must be c_______ in the streets, because the traffic d______ on the left. You must look to the right and then the left before you cross a street.

In the morning and in the evening when people go to or come back from work, the streets are very b______. traffic is most d_______then.

When you go by bus in England, you have to take care, too. Always r______

the traffic m ______ on the left. You have to t______ a look first or you will go to

the w_______way.

In many English cities there are big buses with two f______ . You can sit on the second one. From there you can see the city very well.

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Which animal do we need m? Dogs? Horses? No! The a to the

question is cows.Why cows? Cows give us milk. And milk is one of our most

important k of food.

Suppose(假设 ) that all the milk cows make in one year were put i bottles.

And suppose these bottles were put side by side. The line of bottles would go all

around the world 400 t.That is a lot of milk, less than half of it is used for

d and cooking. Most of it is u to mak

e butter cheese, ice cream and

many other things. It takes many cows to give us that m milk. But not as many

as it used to. A cow used to give only about 1,500 quarts(夸脱 )of milk a year. Now a

fine cow may g9more than 3,000 quarts in a year.

Why do cows give more milk today? Now farmers have better cows. The cows

get better c 10and better food.

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Here’as part of an e-mail answer from Joe giving some advice to his son in

college . “ When I wasungyo , I often met t_________ about what to do and what

not to do . My grandmother told me not to worry about those things . I o________ did

them once a year or once a lifetime . I________ , I should try to do well those things ,

and I do them every day . For example , I need to eat every day , so I should learn

how to c________ . I need to talk to o________ every day , so I should learn how to

work with d ________ people and know how to s ________ well . I walk every day ,

so my s _______ should be all right and comfortable . Every night I sleep , so my

bed should let me have a good rest . Taking care of the e_________ things

”m________ that you do a better job of the one in a lifetime things as well . 1. 2. 3. 4.

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Let me tell you a story . A good friend of mine lives with six hundred animals on

an island . Ever s______ he left school , he has travelled all over the world l______ for animals for his own zoo . He writes books about his travels , and about his wonderful a______ . The money for his books helps him to p_______ for all the animal food . My friend told me that when he was looking for water last week (There is

not enough water on the island , though there is a lot all around it ) , he f______

oil . He n______ money for his travels and for his zoo , and a little oil would buy

e______ water for a long time , but he knows that if he tells anybody else about it , it

will be the e______ of his zoo and his life’ s work . So I think hetllwillanybodynot

e ______ you and me about what he found— because oil and water can’ t be p___ together . Oil may bring greater trouble to his animals than not having enough water . Do you think so ?

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Can animals be made to work for people ? Some scientists think that one day animals may be trained to do a number of simple jobs i_________ of people . They

say that at a circus（杂技场）， for e__________ , we may see elephants , monkeys , dogs and other animals doing q ________ skillful things . Perhaps you have seen them on the television or in a film . If you watch closely , you may find that the trainer （驯兽员） always g ________ the animal some sugar o r a piece of fruit as

a reward . The scientists say that many d_________ animals may be trained to do a

lot of simple things if they know they will get a reward f________doing that .

Of course , as we know , dogs can be trained to l__________ after a house, and soldiers in both old and modern t __________ have used geese to give warning （警报）by m _________ a lot of noise when an enemy comes near . And also it

may be possible to train animals to work in families or f ____________ .

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The u________ means the earth ,the sun , the moon and the stars and the space

b________ them .Many of the stars are so f_____ away that we can not see them .

The moon , our satellite , travels a______ the earth . It has already been visited

b______ man from the earth . Man-made satellites have been sent up i______ space

by many countries .They go round the earth . They are used for helping us to learn more

a______ the earth , the weather and other things . They are also used for sending

and r_______ messages . It makes people f_______ different countries understand each other much better . So people say the world itself is becoming a much s_____ place. People call the small place“ the global. village”

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If you don ’ t use your arms or your legs for some time , they will become weak ; when you start using them again , they will gradually （逐渐地） become stronger

again . Everybody knows this . Yet many people do not seem to know that it is the

s with memory . When someone says that he has a good memory , he really means that he d give it enough chance to become stronger.

If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak , we k3that it is his own

fault . But if he tells us that he has a poor memory , many of us think that his p4

are to blame , and f 5of us know that it is just his own fault.

Have you e 6found some people can’ t read or write but they usually have b7memories ? This is b 8they cannot read or write and they h 9to remember things ; they cannot write them down in a little notebook . They must remember dates , names , songs and stories ; so their memory is the whole time being exercised.

So if you want a good memory , l10from these people : practise

remembering .

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Henry was worried. This was his first time to go traveling by air. He did not

know h_____ to find his seat, so he went to the air hostess and asked, “ Couldyou

help me? I can ’ t find my seat.” The air hostesshims the seat and told him to sit

d_____ and fasten the seat belt. She told Henry not to m______ about when the plane was going up. And she also said that Henry’ s ears might feel a little s______, but he didn ’t need to worry about it b_______ many people felt like that. When the plane

was f_______ very high, Henry could stand up and walk round. He could e______

read books, newspapers or see films. The air hostess would b_____ food and drinks. Henry could e______ the flight and arrived home soon.

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KEYS:1

taught , say , watch , doing , different , jobs , factories , been , believe , even .

KEYS:2

interested ,called , hospitals , zoo , ways ,ill , medicine , heart , operate , owners . KEYS:3

saw，whether，nothing ，address，remember，During，lost，where，older，surprised . KEYS:4

1. everyone / everybody

2. night

3. enough

4. time

5. put

6. breakfast

7. usually

8. smile

9. world10. remember

KEYS:5

1. busy

2. lives

3. summer

4. boat

5. breakfast

6.school

7. shop

8. never

9. watching 10. Perhaps

KEYS:6

store , help , anything , want , in , tells , buy , either , read , surprise .

KEYS:7

bought , washed , wear , change , money ,hot , looks/seems , instruction(s) , before , either ,

KEYS:8

1 foreigner

2 careful

3 drives

4 busy

5 dangerous

6 remember

7 moves

8 take

9 wrong10 floors

KEYS:9

1．most2． answer3． kinds4． into5． times

6．drinking7．used8．much9．give10．care

KEYS:10

1. trouble(s)

2. only

3. Instead

4. cook

5. others

6. different

7. speak

8. shoes

9. everyday10. means

KEYS:11

1. since

2. looking

3. animals

4.pay 5 . found

6. needs

7. enough

8. end

9. except10.put

KEYS:12

1. instead

2. example

3. quite

4.gives

5. different

6. for

7. look

8. times

9. making10. factories

KEYS:13

universe,between,far,around,by ,into ,about , receiving ,from ,smaller .

KEYS:14

1. same

2. doesn’t

3. know

4. parents

5. few

6. ever

7. better

8. because

9. have10. learn

KEYS:15

how, showed, down , move , strange , because , flying, either, bring , enjoy