2014年中考临近，首字母填空的题型是考生反应最难的部分之一，其要求考生在理解短文的基础上正确拼写，词语的形式要合理，符合语法规范。常要注意的是几点：1. 通读短文，从整体理解。2. 抓重要信息，前后照应猜词。3.合理答题，讲准确细致。4. 常做练习，总结得与失。一、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。Firefighters or firemen play an important role in our daily life. In some places, firefighters use watchtowers to look for smoke and fires, although they get a fire report by telephone. A high tower is still very u 67 for watching and guarding a place. Fire fighters also make it a place for practice. They learn how to p 68 out fires from burning buildings. They try to c 69 up the outside of the tower as fast as possible. They carry water hoses up to the fire. They practise carrying imaginable victims down f 70 high ladders.There are reasons that firefighters are called for help. 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 from floods or an earthquake. Whenever there is an emergency situation, they can be seen f 73 there.Being a fire fighter needs a lot of t 74 . In the first place, firefighters should know how to educate the community （社区） by visiting schools, community centres and people in their own homes to p 75 fire and accidents from starting. They have to learn how to deal with different dangerous situations. Above all, its necessary for firefighters to exercise every day to be h 76 and strong.答案一： 67.useful 68. put 69. climb 70. from 71.on 72. trapped 73. fighting 74. training75. prevent 76. healthy二、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。Man has a big brain. He can think and s 72 languages. Scientists once thought that man isnt the same as animals b 73 man can think and learn. They know now that dogs, monkeys and birds can learn, too.They are beginning to u 74 that men are different from animals because they can speak. Animals cant speak. They make much n 75 when they are afraid, or unhappy. Apes(猿) can learn some things more quickly than man. One or two of them have learned a few words. But they can not join words to make s 76 . They cannot think l 77 us because they have no language. Language is a wonderful thing. Man has been a 78 to build a modern world because he has language. Every child can speak his own language very w 79 when he is four or five, b 80 no animals learn to speak.How do children learn it? Scientists dont really know w 81 happens inside our body when we speak. They only know that man can speak because he has a brain.答案二：72. speak 73. because 74. understand 75. noise 76. sentences 77. like 78. able 79. well 80. but 81. What三、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。Our dog, Rex, used to sit outside our front gate and bark. Every time he wanted to come into the garden he would bark u 72 someone opened the gate. As the neighbours complained of the noise, my husband s 73 weeks training him to press his paw on the latch (门闩) to let himself in. Rex 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 developed another bad h 78 . As soon as he opens the gate from the outside, he comes i 79 the garden and waits until the gate shuts. Then he sits and barks until someone lets him out. After this he immediately lets himself in and begins barking a 80 . Yesterday my husband removed the gate and Rex got so a 81 that he disappeared. Since then, we have not seen him.答案三：72. until 73. spent 74. opening 75. However 76. noticed 77. out 78. habit 79. into 80. again 81. angry四、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。Elizabeth lived with her six children in a small house. One winter, there was a big flood and quite a f 72 houses were washed away, but Elizabeths house was high e 73 to escape it.Elizabeth took in one of the families which had lost everything. She shared her home until the family could build a 74 house. Elizabeths friends could not understand w 75 she wanted to give so much when she already had so many children to support.“Well, ” Elizabeth e 76 to her friends, “at the end of World War I, there was a poor woman in a town in Germany. Her husband had been killed in the war and she had a lot of children, just like m 77 now.”“The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, We wont be a 78 to have much for Christmas. Im going to get just one p 79 for us all. Now Ill go and get it. She came back w 80 a little girl who had no parents. Heres our present, she said to her own children.The children were more than excited to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl warmly, and she g 81 up as their sister. I was that Christmas present.”答案四： 72. few 73. enough 74. another 75. why 76. explained 77. me 78. able 79. present 80. with 81. grew五、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。Teenagers are very busy at school now and often forget to think about their diets and sports. The truth is that healthy eating and regular exercise are t 67 ways to keep fit.D 68 your tee