初三英语首字母填空

The continent (

洲

Antarctica is the most southern area of land on the Earth and is

mostly covered with ice. People have never wanted to l there because of its coldest

temperature. But now scientists from all over the w come to study the ice to learn more

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out the Earth’s history.

Some scientists live on Antarctica for part of the y . But they don’t usually stay there

for more than six months b there are six months of light and six months of darkness.

Antarctica usually has a good deal of f weather without any wind at all. The strong

winds are usually only in some parts of it. It is also i to learn that it isn’t very wet there.

There is very l snow or rain. It snows on the ice in winter, but at other times Antarctica is

d , just like the Sahara Desert.

In winter the sea around Antarctica freezes (

结冰

for t of kilometres. But scientists

tell us that the earth is getting w . So in the future, there may be less ice in the Antarctic

sea. When that happens, our weather will never be the same again.

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You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries.

In fact, an English dictiona

ry you u today wasn’t made until the Qing Dynasty. Three

men did most of the important e work on dictionary. They spent nearly all their l trying to

collect words for their dictionary. For them, it was a wonderful journey. The largest

dictionary in the world is Oxford English Dictionary . The i for this dictionary came from

an important meeting in Britain in 1857. Twenty-two years later, Oxford University

asked James Murray to b the editor of its new dictionary.

Murray had never been to college. At the age of fourteen, he left his village school

in Scotland and taught h while working in a bank. Later he became a great teacher. After

Oxford gave him the job, Murray had a small house b in his garden to do the work. Every

morning, Murray got out of bed at five

o’clock and in the small house several hours

before breakfast. Often he would work into the night. Murray to finish the new dictionary

in ten years. But after five years, he was still adding words for the letter “A”! He worked

on the dictionary u he was very old. Forty-four years later, in 1928, other editors finished

the dictionary.

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Do you enjo

y climbing mountains? I’d like to tell you a true story about John and

Peter. They were mountaineers(

登山者

. As John was experienced, he was always asking

Peter to copy his example. “Would you like to stand on the of the world, Peter?” “Of

course. It has alr

eady my dream,” Peter answered. On a sunny morning, the two men

started for the top of Mount Qomolangma. After they climbed over one of the most

slopes(

斜坡

, they found a man lying in the snow. “He’s going to ,” Peter looked at John

and said, as if he would

help the man. “ Leave him by himself and just follow me! But if

you bring the burden(

累赘

with you, I’m you will lose your life.” John warned Peter.

Then he turned around and walked forward . It was too cold. After thinking for a , Peter

made up his mind to help the dying man. He carried the man on his back and made his

way forward. Little by little, Peter’s temperature made the man . The man came to

himself! And soon he could move all by himself. Together they moved side by side.

About two hours later, they kept up with John. To their surprise, they found that

John was almost in the snow. He had been frozen to death.

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Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang completed a spacewalk 43hours after the launch(

发

射

of Shenzhou-7. It is a breakthrough(

突破

in history in our country’s great space

program.

Zhai Zhigang went out of Shenzhou-7at 4:43p.m. September 27, 2008. He waved to

us as well as the whole world. All the Chinese felt at that moment. Many people watched

the spacewalk on TV or on the . They their hands and cheered. “Shenzhou

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7reports:I’m

now outside the spacecraft. I feel well. I am here greeting the Chinese people and people

o

f the whole world,” Zhai Zhigang to the ground control in China. Then another astronaut

Liu Boming handed Zhai Zhigang a Chinese flag. Zhai Zhigang waved the red flag

outside the spaceship. The astronaut called Jing Haipeng was monitoring the spaceship

inside.

After the 20-minute spacewalk, Zhai Zhigang was seen lying back on his seat,

chatting with two other astronauts a smile on his face. “The feeling of spacewalk is great.

In the vast space, I am of our motherland.” China’s first spacewalk attracts the world’s .

The whole world have known about the spacewalk. China has made rapid progress in the

unknown space.

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What can you do to keep healthy? Perhaps for children, healthy eating is one of the

most important things. Here are some ideas about to eat healthily.

A good breakfast is very important to children. It’s necessary to have it in the . But

some children often go to school breakfast, just because they want to sleep a little longer.

Remember that a good breakfast will help you study better.

“My dream is that all the Chinese children can get half a kilogram(

公斤

of milk a

day.” The Chinese Premier

(

总理

Wen Jiabao said this during his to a milk farm. Milk is

also very important to children’s health. It makes children grow stronger. It’s better for

you to a glass of warm milk before going to bed. That will help you have a good .

Having healthy food is the most important. That means eating lots of different of

food, especially fruits and vegetables. Don’t eat too much chocolate ice

-cream. Some of

you eating fast food, but in fact it is not good for your health. Try to eat healthy food as

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What is the most popular snack today? Potato chips? Walk i almost any supermarket

or corner store in North America and you will see potato chips . North America has the l

number of people who love potato chips in the world . Do you know where this very

popular snack food c from?

One day, almost 150years ago, a man in an expensive restaurant in New York State

was c popular food -French fries . However, a customer(

顾客

in the restaurant didn’t like

the French fries, and c because they were too thick . The cook cut some potatoes into

thinner pieces and fried them . A w brought them to the customer . The customer tasted

them, and asked to see the boss because he was still not satisfied . The boss went to

explain to the customer .

However, the customer said something bad a about the chips again . The cook

became very unhappy because the customer was so r . He decided to play a trick on the

customer .

He cut some potatoes so thin t the customer wouldn’t be able to pick them up with

his fork . To the cook’s s , the customer loved the new chips . Soon oth

er customers

wanted them, too . From then on, the chips became more and more popular .

Flu, or influenza, is a common illness that makes you feel very tired and weak, and

makes you cough and have a fever. But recently we find a new kind flu c H1N1influenza

A . We find ourselves in the dark about the terrible flu virus . Is it quite d from a common

flu? The answer is no, because it seems s to regular human flu with a fever, cough and a

headache. The answer is , because it has caused at least 64d around the world. And the

World Health Organization has confirmed (

确诊

about 6,500cases.

The flu virus first appeared in pigs or swines. WHO says the virus is being spread

from human-to-human, not from contact with infected (

感染的

pigs. Scientists try to

know clearly how it jumped to humans. The steps are aimed at stopping further spread of

the virus.

Pork imports aren’t a from the areas which have swine flu. Though experts said

swine flu is not connected with pigs and not spread by e pork.

So far groups of illnesses seem related to Mexican travel. For example, some

students in New York fell i from an spring outing in Mexico. Flu viruses can be spread by

touching(

触摸

your mouth or nose w unwashed hands. Swine flu can be treated, but so

many confirmed cases s that we had better take early notice, in case it would be too late.

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The earth is our home; we must take care of it. This means that the land, air and

water clean is necessary and important. However, pollution is beginning to threaten(

威胁

our health, or happiness and our life --we see it, smell it, taste it and it.

Men began to the earth a long time ago. When land was used up or water became

dirty, men had to to another place. At first, there weren’t so people then and their wants

were fewer. All the dirty things could be absorbed by nature. But now this is no true. The

increase of population and the development of industry have changed that. Men are

polluting his environment.

millions of people have realized the danger of pollution. Large of people are now

working hard to protect our environment. Everyone should do their to make our

environment better and better.

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Advertisements are everywhere! They’re on the radio and TV, in the newspapers

and magazines,

and on buses, and b . They’re on websites and mobile phones .

Companies give their products to film stars, pop stars and sports stars to u so that fans

will buy them in order to copy the stars .

Advertisements have become so common that they aren’t w any more . We don’t

like advertisements . So we try not to see them . We turn o the advertisements on our

computers .

We refuse to watch them on TV, or read them in magazines . We no l pay attention

to the posters all around us . We don’t copy the stars because we know maybe they don’t

r like the things they advertise .

This means that advertising companies need a new w to sell their products . They

can’t make their products “cool” by advertising . Advertisements aren’t cool, and

teenagers won’t buy the things

in advertisements j because the advertisements say they

are fashionable . The latest way to advertise is not to advertise .

I of using stars, companies are using teenagers . They pay them to tell their friends

about new products . Teenagers don’t want to d

ress like everyone else and buy the things

that everyone else has . They want to look d and create their own styles . Teenagers don’t

think it’s cool to copy the stars or buy things they’ve seen in advertisements .