初三上英语课文M1-M12填空训练_外研版

1、初三上英语课文M1-M12填空训练外研版Module 1When I arrived, it was early morning and it was raining I got of the car, wenta gate and walked a path In the east, the sky was light, but the path, it was still very I knew it was , but therewas to seeAfter about a kilometer, a stranger in front of me. “Am Igoing the way

2、?I asked He knew I was going "yes, n he replied,"you' 11 get there five minutes" Finally, I came to some rock, and I lookedcarefully them, but it was still too dark to see Suddenly, the clouds and the rain stopped The sunbehind me and the rocks I saw that the ground fell and down

3、a river, far below me. I was on the of the GrandCanyon, one of the of the natural worldI looked down to the Colorado River about 2,000 metres me. Ifyou put the threet the top tallest in the world at the of thecanyon, they still won'Then I looked to the other side of the cany on. How far is it?It

4、' s 20 kilometres,maybe more Finally, I looked to my left and to my right, and on both sides the canyon into the distanceover 400 kilometreslong The Grand Canyon is not just big It' s huge!That morning on the of the canyon, I asked a question.It" s not "how deepis it? ” or 44how wi

5、de is it? ” or uhow long is it? ” but "Isthe Grand Canyon thegreatest wonder in the natural world? " I know the answerBut what do you think?Module 2My favourite great book is the adventures of tom sawyer by marktwain. Tom lives his aunt Polly in the streets of St Petersburg, MissouriHe'

6、; s a and cleveryoung boy, and he finds himself in many exciting He runsaway with his two friends, Huck Finn and Joe, to an in the middleof the Mississippi River for days With Huck he goes for ,with Becky he gets lost in a , and finally, they find a box ofMy favourite in the book is when everyone th

7、inks Tom is dead.He to go to his own funera 1. He and watches for a time,and then suddenly he Everyone is surprised to see him butthey' re also to see him Tom is the of the story, but there are other important Huck is an and everyone is afraid of him. Becky is pretty with hair, Joe is Tom' s

8、 best friend,and Injun Joe is the bad man of the story.The of the story are to do children up andbecoming more serious It how strangers are seen in small townsof America Finally, it talks about , social rules and how peopleare for bad behaviourWhy do I think Tom Sawyer is a great book? Mark Twain wr

9、ote the story in 1876, but it's read and loved by people all over the world today. And it' s only a story, thTwain wrote it in the everyday English of the states of America in the 19 century,so it sounds very Today it' s thought to be one of thegreatest books in American Go onread it! I

10、know you' 11 enjoy it, too.Module 3For liu Xiang, life as a sporting hero has just begun. First of all, he' 11 be invitedto around the world He' 11 be chosen to China at theOlympic Games He' sa of Chinaf s international sporting successAnd now that he' s well known all over the w

11、orld, liu Xiang willalso be asked to in advertisements and films, and to recordmusic But his coach Sun Haiping is sure that he trains Liu Xiang will be by his coach how to be a great sportsman, andby his how to be a starLiu Xiang is not an success He was born in Shanghai on July13, 1983 and many Oly

12、mpic sports stars, he stared when hewas very young In Grade Four, he went to the Sports School ofPutuo of Shanghai Liu was at first to train as a highjumper Then, in 1998, his at hurdling was noticed by his coachSun HaipingLiu Xiang was helped by a special It was up in 2001 tohelp young sportsmen an

13、d sportswomen. Liu' s were recorded, andhis performance was with the world * s best sports stars SunHaiping used the to change Liu' s training programmeIn 2002 he his first international 110m hurdles inSwitzerland, and the same year, a gold medal at the Asia Games inKorea In 2004, Liu won th

14、e first Olympicfor China in Athens, Greece gold medal in the sameSo what' s for Liu Xiang? Has he found out that theref s to life thantraining? Will he be encouraged to spend more time away form sport?No, Liu Xiang will go for more for China because he was trained for gold!Module 4Every morning

15、my father buys a newspaper his way to workEvery day I open my books in class and my lessons Every eveningmy mother looks magazines at home nd every night, I look at the with photos of David Beckham and Yao Ming on my bedroom Awall before I go to sleep Can we life without paper or print?Paper was fir

16、st about 2, 000 years ago, and has been made of, cotton, bamboo, thand, the 19 century, of wood Peoplelearned to write words on paper to a book But in those days,books could only be one at a time by hand As a result, they tmany books, people were expensive and And because thereweren*learned to readT

17、hen printing was invented in China The first books weremade by ink against a block and holding the paper it. When printing was developed greatly that the of the 11century, books could be more quickly and As a result,more people learned to read After that, knowledge and ideas quickly, thin a way can

18、be compared with the of theInternet in the 20 century.But will books bein the future? Today information can be online, downloaded from the Internet rather than in books,and information can be kept on CD-ROMs or such as MP3 playersThese machines are smaller and than books so that they can becarried v

19、ery Computers are already used in , and newspapers and magazinescan already be read So will books be by computers one day?No, I don' t think the Yao Ming posteron my bedroom wall will be replaced by a computer two metreshigh! Module 5he most unusual museum in London is the Science Museum In most

20、 museums, thereT s no Tshouting and no running, and you aren1 t to touch theexhibits But the ScienceMuseum is differentbecause it' s ! People talk about they can see and dothere, and some of the are noisy as wel 1. the ScienceMuseum is fun and it' s a great way to learn about science because

21、 you can work things out and out ideasWhen I visit the Science Museum, I go to the Launch Pad This is my favourite room because you can do physics For example, if youwant to fill a bag with sand, you have to move a kind of truck on into the position. You can also learn how to make I also go to the R

22、ocket Show. You can learn how we travel into space and againThen I go to the Human and Nature room You can compare yourspeed animals there You hear a noise and push a If youaren* t fast , the lion you! I' m faster than all my friends, but the lion still catches me.There are also rooms transport,

23、 the environment and space, as well as maths, physics and chemistry.You can do a lot of things in this museum, but you have to obey some as wel1. For example, you mustn* t take photos of the in the museum But you can buy of them in the museum shopsAbove all, the Science Museum is free That means you

24、 can infor a few minutes or you can stay as long as you it' s openevery day, from 10am to 6pm So if yougo to London, make sure you visit the Science Museum It' s my favourite museum inthe whole worldModule 6Do you try to walk or ride a bike to school?Do you buy new clothes just because they

25、are the fashions?Do you open a window instead of on air conditioning?Do you buy things produced instead of made abroad?Do you take you own cloth bag when instead of using plasticbags? Do you the waste before it away?We all need a healthy environment, but we produce waste every day and it harm to our

26、 environment we are young, we can stilldo something to help In fact, simplest everyday activities can make a difference to theenvironment Here theare some ideas for you.Remember these three words: reduce, reuse and recycleReduceReduce means "use less” Don' t waste things This saves money an

27、d pollution and waste into the environment Before we buy something new, think whether it is necessary or maybe the oldone will be just good! When we buy things, choose products if possible, and try not to buy too many things from Itmay cost a lot of money to them to us.ReuseReuse means "use aga

28、inn Use things for as long as Whenwe buy things, make sure that they a long time We should lookafter them so that they will last, andnew ones Don' t we should them if we can instead of throwingthem away and use a paper cup a paper bag It' s better touse a china cup and a box becauseyou can u

29、se them again.RecycleRecycle means achange things into something else” Although ittakes to changesomething into something else, it' s better than things awayor burning them. Find out what can be recycled in your and takepart in progremmes We should also buy products fromrecycled , such as recycl

30、ed paper, to help save trees Module 7I' m writing this letter to you from the centre of AustraliaAt the moment we' re staying near Uluru thats the Aboriginalname Ayer RockOn the first day, we took a helicopter over the rock, and Iwas surprised at how big it was： 3.6 kilometres long and 348 m

31、etres high. The colours of the rock are fantastic, and at different of the day,people that have lived in Australia from the times, and theancient Aboriginal stories describe the that created the worldUluru is a centre of Aboriginal The Australians have many British and they' re like us inmany wa

32、ys Their familylife is to ours, and they enjoy the same food and Thefood and drink that most Australians like are grapes, lamb, ham and wine that they make in the south of the country. They love all sports, but the games that they love the most are football, andrugby. Because most Australians live t

33、he coast, they love going tothe beach, swimming and Although it' s December, it' s summer over here The sunshine isvery bright, and near the the countryside is very green. Thereare lots of sheep in the and on the hills, but the is morelike a desert, full of rocks and sandMost Australians spe

34、ak English, although they have some special such as "goodday! ” And “ no worries, mate" They mean "hello!" and "don' t worry about it. it' snot a problem!nThe next day after we arrived at Uluru, we went on a camel ride The camel that I rode had a bad , and I got very

35、 tired Everyone elsethought it was very funny that my camel kept downFinally, this evening, we' re taking the plane back to Sydneyand coming home It' sbeen a fantastic trip!Module 8We were very pleased the photo competition. Compared other years, we many more photos Even though all of the ph

36、otosare , we can* t give prizes to everyoneThere are four , so read on to find out who the winners areThe person who won the prize the "Most Beautiful Naturenphotography isfifteen-year-old Li Wei. Li took photos of the in XiangshangPark The park isn' t from his home, about 500 metres, and h

37、e knows it very wel1.The photo which we best in the "Historic China*' group was by Zhao Min.Zhao is only 12 years old Her photo is of Tian' anmen Square, the public squarein the world It' s 880 metres from north to south and 500 metres at the northern end Her photo shows the size an

38、d beauty of the square perfectly.The best photo in the uMusicv was taken by He Zhong Hisphoto of his this year' sbest band Crazy Feet the singer, Becky Wang, and the band at a concert in Shenzhen. He Zhong to show the movement and the of this great new band, and the fun which their fans areA of

39、photos called the uMany Faces of Our Cityn which Beijing won theprize for the "Most Unusualv category. Three pupils at the same school worked on this It photos of different parts of thecity, old and new. It shows therich culture which makes Beijing so famousCongratulations to our winners and to

40、 everyone who enteredthe We are very luck that the famous John William is inChina to talk about his new book Ha has agreed to the prizes atthe prize giving at the end of this month Module 9 cartoonheroesemo, a orange-and white fish, and Sherk, a green monsterhave the hearts Nof young people in China

41、 and all over the world The ofpopular cartoons are everywhere, on office desks, handbags, and computerBut there are some cartoon which are older The cartoon ofthe Monkey King has th had its 40 birthday. Havoc in Heaven,it tells the story of a monkey who a group of monkeys therule of the Emperor in h

42、eaven. But it is above all the jokes bythe monkey that people remember “Havoc in Heavenn has become a expression used by a parent or a boss when they to the houseor office and see a Another favourite who has an important birthday in China is areporter red hair and a small white dog Tintin has been f

43、or 75 years, ever since Belgian cartoonist Herge invented the in1929 His books have been into more than 50 languages, and about200 million have been sold In December 1984 the whole ofTintin began to be in china Many Chinese still keep ofthese black-and-white Tintin books There are several clubs inCh

44、ina which have held birthday parties for Tintin in Beijing, Shanghai,Guangzhou, Nanjing and Wuhan.Finally, Snoopy, Charlie Brown' s dog who lives in his own dream world, thalso had his 50 birthday by Chinaf s Snoopy fans in 2000.I didn" t the cartoons only for children. Adults who have life

45、 understand them better, said the late Charles Schultz, creator of Snoopy and the Peanuts cartoonsModule 10Jamie Oliver is a young cook who wants to school dinners In2005 he went back to see the children were eating1. Jamie asked the children what their meals were "we havehamburgers and chips,o

46、r pizza, n they told him, uand sometimes there is fruit, but we ice creamJamiethought the was terrible The children were eating junk food,and it was a Junk food isn" t bad for the body. Children midday meals were unhealthy were difficult to teach in the afternoon. Teachers said that children ve

47、ry badly after lunch2. When Jamie took vegetables into class, the children didn' t know what they were Jamie that the children didn' t know about healthy food Then he talked to the people who worked in the He found out that theydidn' t know enough about food and health,and they didn'

48、 t have very much money to 3. He decided to teach the and the children about healthy foodIt was hard work! He cooked healthy meals for them meat, rice,pasta and vegetables, but a lot of the teenagers to eat the newfood Jamie showed them why the junk food wasn' t In the end, when Jamie them to tr

49、y his cooking, they liked it!4. Jamie talked to the He told them they needed to junkfood form schools, train the cooks, the children and spend moremoney on school A lot of parents, teachers and children with him, and a TV showed his visits to the schoolis a cook whose ideas are changing school dinne

50、rs all over Britain. JamieModule 11 Visions of the cityJo is 15 and lives in Parkville When Jo' s grandparents cameto Parkville 50years ago, it was a country village in the of thecountry. At that time, theyhad a small house on the of town, with some fields and thehills in the .But Parkville was

51、to a big city, Arnwick, about 200, 000people People from the countryside began to arrive in Arnwick to find and have a life And of course they needed to liveHowever, it was to live in the centre of Arnwick, so the citygovernment decided to build flats the edge of the city And soonParkville became &#

52、39; s family live in one a of Arnwick It now has a million people Joof those new flats - theref s no for small houses any moreThe small school in Parkville closed down five years ago. Jogoes to a school to the centre of Arnwick, with 2000 pupils Noone knows all their namesJo takes an hour to get to school, and to the traffic and But it' s nother She liked her old schoolArnwick needs larger hospitals and more doctors, better public transport and fewer cars There to be shops and officesIt also needs clean water and no in the streets