1初三英语期末总复习系列 (首字母填空)练习一Steven Ballmer is always excited, as he was this time in front of over 2,000 students from Beijing University and Qinghua University. Ballmer, President of Microsoft Crop, r_ 1 a warm welcome at Qinghua University when he gave a talk on the next generation of the Internet on September 19th. He came to China last week for a two-day v _2 ，during which he slept only four hours and had many meetings with government officials and men of b _ 3 . After all those business matters, he came to Qinghua University and was asked thousands of q _ 4 from the excited students.Ballmer, w _ 5 joined Microsoft in 1980, is the first business manager hired (雇佣) by Bill Gates, a schoolmate of Ballmer at Harvard University. Gates first dropped out of school to s _ 6 Microsoft and Ballmer was still studying, but he also g _ 7 up his studies and joined Bill Gates five-year-old Microsoft in 1980.In his talk to the students, Ballmer described what the Internet will b _8 to their life. He said there are several hundred Qinghua graduates now w _ 9or being trained at Microsoft both in China and in the US. He also warn the students not to drop out of school and f _10 the example of Bill Gates and himself. 练习二People eat different things in different places of the world. In southern China, we eat r_1_ every day. Sometimes we eat two or three m_2_ a day. We usually have rice w_3_ fish , meat and v_4_ for breakfast, lunch, o_5_ supper.The Japanese eat rice, too. They eat a lot of fish. They sometimes eat raw fish. In Africa, maize（玉米） is the m_6_ important food. People there make maize into flour. From the flour they make different kind of bread and porridge.In Britain, America, Canada, Australia and many other c_7_, the most important food is bread and p_8_. People there usually make their bread f_9_ wheat flour. They cook the potatoes in many different w_10_. People usually cook their evening meals at home. But f_11_ lunch, they often buy cooked food and take it away. People also often have a take-away at the weekend. Many people in England buy fish and chips or C_12_ food and take it away.常用的答题技巧如下：1. 通读短文知大意，看整体全面了解每篇短文段落之间必然承上启下、前呼后应。因此通读全文时要一气呵成，目的是对文章有个全面的了解，弄清大意。2. 复读短文抓信息，前后照应巧猜词要特别注意文章的开头和结尾，它们能提供主要的信息。在阅读过程中，要学会跳读，即采用暂时回避的方式。约 3%5% 的生词是很正常的，要根据构词知识或上下文加以猜测。3. 反复推敲多分析，慎重答题讲合理精心阅读，要留心找出关键词、短语、固定搭配或句子，并注意单词的正确形式。4. 认真复查全文，把握整体和词形检查文章是否通顺，前后是否呼应，有无句型结构及语法错误。比如填 q ，要求填写 quickly ，而多数考生只知道填写 quick ，忽略了词性问题。因此，深思熟虑很重要。2练习三Dr Hong was born in Hangzhou in Zhejiang P_1_ in 1957. When he was a child, Hangzhou was full of birds and a 2 . Dr Hongs f_3_ hobby was walking in the countryside looking for new and u 4 things. He was first interested in fish fossils. Then he found a l_ 5 _ number of bird fossils and started to study them. Dr Hong said he was lucky e_6_ to see the fossil of Confuciusornis, w 7 was one of the earliest birds on Earth. Dr Hong s 8 science at Qinghua U 9 in Beijing, then in Europe. Then he r 10 to Beijing to work in early 2000.练习四Lewis Carroll was born in 1832. He was the oldest boy in a family of 11 children. He was a very bright student. In 1849, he studied in Oxford University where his father u 1 to go. Later, he became a mathematician, teaching in a university. The university paid him quite w 2 , but he was not i 3 in his job because most of his students were older and richer than him. They didnt like to l 4 and Lewis didnt want to teach. In 1856, he became interested in t 5 photos and took up photography as a hobby. He was also good at writing poems and short stories. In the same year, he became f 6 with one of his fellow teachers and his family. There were three little girls in the family. The second daughter of the family was n 7 Alice. Lewis often took the girls on the river for picnics. Lewis made up the stories of Alice and told them to the girls day after day. They liked the stories s 8 much that Alice asked him to write the stories down, and so he d 9 . Then he was asked to send it to a publisher. The book came out in 1865, and was a great success. He also wrote some other Alice books, for example, Through the looking glass and What Alice found there. He died in 1898 at the a 10 of 66.练习五We spent a day in the country and p_1_a lot of flowers. Our car was f_2_of flowers inside! On the way h_3_ we had to stop at traffic lights, and there my wife saw the bookshelf.It stood outside a furniture（家具）shop. “B_4_ it,” she said at once. “Well carry it home on the roof-rack（车顶架）. Ive a_5_ wanted one like that.”What could I do? Ten m_6_ later I was twenty dollars poorer, and the bookshelf was tied on to the roof rack. It was tall and narrow, quite h_7_ too.As it was g_8_ darker, I drove slowly. Other drivers se