上海牛津初一首字母填空45篇练习题

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初一初二首字母填空45篇
1
A driver stopped his car on a street side to have a rest. He lay down in the seat and c_____ his eyes. A man came up and k_____ at the window to ask the time. The driver o______ his eyes and looked at his watch. "It's 8 am." he said. Then he went to sleep again.
But soon he woke up b________ a second person was knocking at the window. "Sir, do you have the time?" he asked. The driver looked at his watch again, and told the man it was 8:30am.
At this rate, he could not have a good rest, so he wrote a short n_______ and put it upon the window for all to see. It s_______: "I don't have the time."
Again the man lay down in the seat for his sleep. A few minutes later, a t______ person came along and began knocking at the window. “Hay, sir,” he said. "It is a quarter to nine."
Keys: closed, knocked, opened, because, note, said, third.

2
It was Sunday. I never get up e________ on Sundays. I sometime s_____ in bed until lunch time. Last Sunday I got up very l_______. I looked out of the window. It was d______ outside. "What a day!" I thought. "It is raining again." Just then, the telephone rang. It was my Aunt Lucy. "I have just arrived by train," she said. "I am c_____ to see you."
But I am s_____ having my breakfast," I said. ""What are you doing?" she asked.
I am having breakfast," I r______. "Dear me." she said. "Do you always get up so late? It's one o'clock!"
Keys: early, stay, late, dark, coming, still, replied.

3
Until a few years ago, only boys could become s________ at the University of Ruritania (鲁里坦尼亚). Later the university decided to take girls in. But one of the teachers, Mr. Goller was not pleased at all. He had not wanted to l_____ girl students in.
Mr. Goiter always began his lesson with the word Gentlemen". What could he do now? Well, when the girt students came to his lesson for the f________ time, he still began with the word. For him the girls were j________ not there. Then one day there was only one boy in his class among a lot of girls. For a moment, Mr. Goller didn't k____ what to do. Then he began. "Sir!"
F_______, a terrible day came when there were no boys in his class. He came into the room, looked at the girls and said, "Oh, nobody's here today!" He turned and went out w_______ giving his lessons.
Keys: students, let, first, just, know, finally, without.

4
In 1995, Ray Kroc v________ a small restaurant in California. The o________ of it was the McDonald brothers. They built it b______ the road, so people could drive up to the restaurant, buy food without g______ out of their cars and drive away easily. They called it "drive-in" restaurant.
Ray Kroc saw the bright f________ of the restaurant of this kind. He bought the restaurant and used the brothers' family name for his new r________. The first McDonald's restaurant chain was born.
Now in the United States, there are more than 5,000 restaurants and it has its chain restaurants in 60 other countries. The l________ McDonald's restaurant is in Beijing, China. It has 1,000 workers. About 700 people can sit and eat there at one time.
Keys: visited, owners, beside, going, future, restaurant, largest.

5.
Millions and millions of years ago, the world was much w________ than it is now. There was never any winter or snow. Warm rain fell on the land. Even the sea was warm. In this warm world lived some beasts called dinosaurs. They were the kings of the world for a long time.
In the days of the dinosaurs there were no human beings. So no man has ever seen a r________ dinosaur. But we found a lot about the dinosaurs after years of study. Some dinosaurs lived near the water w_______ some lived on land. Some ate only plants and some ate other a________.
After millions of years, something h________ to the dinosaurs. They began to die out at once. No one knows what happened. But we know that the world grew a little colder. Maybe the dinosaurs could live when it was very warm, and they died out when it became cold. But we are not sure. All we know is that the dinosaurs were the kings of the world for a long time. And no animals like them have ever been seen a______.
Keys: warmer, real, while, animals, happened, once, again.

6.
A woman saw three old men sitting in front of the house. She said. "You must be h_______. Come in and have something to eat."
"We do not go into a house together." they replied. "Why is that?" asked the woman. One of the old men e________, "His name is Wealth, this is Success, and I am Love." Then he went on to say. "Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home."
Then the woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband said. "Let's invite Wealth! Let him come and fill our home with wealth!" His wife d_______, "My dear, why don't we invite Success?" Then the daughter made a s________, "Would it be better to invite Love? Our home will then be filled with love!" "Let's take our daughter's advice," said the father.
Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other two also got up and f_______ him. Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success, "I only invite Love. Why are you coming in with him?"
The old men answered t________, "If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would have stayed out. S_______ you invited Love, there is also Wealth and Success!"
Keys: hungry, explained, disagreed, suggestion, followed, together, Since





7.
When you want to go s________, decide how much money you can s_____ on new clothes. Think about the kind of clothes you really need. Then look for those clothes on sale.
There are labels(标签)inside all new clothes. The labels tell you how to take care of your clothes. The label for a shirt may tell you to wash it in w________ water. A sweater label may tell you to wash it in cold water The label on a coat may say "dry clean only". If you do as the d_________ say on the label, you can keep your clothes looking their best. Many clothes must be dry cleaned. Dry cleaning is expensive. When buying new clothes, check to see if they will need to be dry cleaned. You will save money if you buy clothes that can be washed.
You can save money if you buy clothes that are well made. Well-made clothes l_______ longer. They look good even after they have been washed many times. Clothes that c________ more money are not always better made. They do not always fit better. Sometimes l______ expensive clothes look and fit better than more expensive clothes.
Keys: shopping, spend, warm, directions, money, last, cost, less,

8.
When Albert Einstein started to work in America, someone asked him what he needed. He said he needed a desk, some paper and pencils. He also asked for a big waste-paper basket to hold a_____ of his mistakes. This meant that he knew even the cleverest man in the world can only learn by making m________. Einstein regarded time as something very i________. He never wore socks and he thought p________ on socks was a waste of time as people already wore shoes. He also thought it was a waste of time remembering things that could quickly be found in a b________. That is w______ he never remembered his own phone number, which was in the phone book. He knew what was worth remembering. It is that if we are going to do great things in our lives, we cannot waste our time.
Einstein liked to j_______ too. Once in an examination a student asked him why all the questions were the same as last year's. Einstein said the questions were the same but the answers were d____
Keys: any, mistakes, important, putting, book, why, true, joke, different

9.
Now satellites are to forecast the weather. They are in s______, and they can reach any part of the world. The satellites take the pictures of the atmosphere, because this is where the weather forms. They send these pictures to the weather station. So the scientists there can see the weather of any part of the world and tell how the weather will c______. Today, n_______ 500 weather stations in 60 countries can receive satellite pictures. When they receive the new pictures, they compare them with the e_______ ones. Perhaps they may find that the clouds have changed d_____ the last few hours. This may m______ that the weather on the ground may soon change, too. In their next weather forecast, they can tell people about it.
So the weather satellites are of great h______ to the scientists at the station. In the past they could forecast the weather for about 24 or 48 hours. Now they can make good forecast for 3 or 5 days. Soon, perhaps, they may be able to forecast the weather for a week or m_______ ahead.
Keys: space, change, nearly, earlier, during, mean, help, more.

10.
Most parents always think that they have offered the best things they can to make their children live in a c________ world. They buy their children pretty clothes, cool shoes, strange but e______ school things, and a thousand-yuan-cost bike. They think that they have done e they can for their dear little children. In _______, they only want their children to give them good results in the examinations.
But their little children still can't understand them. Why? Does it m_______ that they still want more material things? No! As a matter of fact, what they want is a true family. What does a true family mean? I think it means a place where we can hide o_____ from the outside cold world. From here, we can get warmth. We can get consolation(安慰), and we can get h______. And one important thing is that we should be stronger and more confident in the outside world because we know that we have a family.
Keys: comfortable, expensive, everything, return, mean, ourselves, help,

11.
In Spain there once l ______ a king and he was very fond of joke. "I will give a bag full of gold." he said, "to the person who can tell me the best story. There is only one r____, it must be a story which I can not believe. If I can believe it. then I won't give away the bag of gold."
People came to the king from all parts of the c_______. They brought strange and w________ stories. The king sat in his palace and listen to all the stories. He e_______ them very much, but to each person he said. "I can believe that story. It could h________ and it may be true. So I won't give you the bag of gold."
At last a poor old man came to the palace. He was carrying a huge stone jar. The old man went into the king's room and said. "Oh, King, your good father was once a poor man and my father was rich. They were very good friends. My father gave your father a large bag like this one, and it was full of gold. Your father p________ to give back the gold when he became rich. But he didn't give it back. Now I am poor and you are rich. And I want the gold.
The king didn't believe the story and he had to give the poor old man the bag of gold.
Keys: lived, joke, country, wonderful, enjoyed, happen, promised.

12
Dear Smith,
Thank you very much for your letter. I am glad that you enjoyed your h________ with me. We enjoyed having you and your sister here. We hope that you will b______ be able to come again next year. Perhaps you'll be able to s______ longer next time you come. A week is not really long e________, is it? If your school has five weeks holiday next year, perhaps you will be able to stay with us for two or three weeks.
We have been long b________ at school for three weeks. It feels like three months! I know that you are working very hard now that you are in Grade One. I shall have to work hard next year when I am in Grade One.
Tom and Ann went for a picnic yesterday but I did not go with them b________ I cut my foot and I couldn't walk very well. They went to an island and enjoyed themselves there. Do you still remember the island? That is where all five of us s________ the last day of our holiday.
We send our best wishes to Betty and you. We hope to see you soon.
Yours sincerely,
Michael
KEYS: holiday, both, stay, enough, back, because, spent

13.
We know the mosquito very well. Mosquitoes fly everywhere. They can be found almost all over the world, and there are more than 2,500 k______ of them. No one 1________the mosquito. But the mosquito may decide what she loves. She? Yes, she. It is true that male mosquito doesn't bite and only the female mosquito bites because she needs blood to lay e______. She is always looking for things or p________ she wants to bite. If she likes what she finds, she bites. But if she doesn't like your blood, she will turn to someone e________ for more delicious blood. Next time a mosquito bites you just remember you are c_______. You are different from the others.
If the mosquito likes you, she lands on your body w________ letting you know. She bites you so quickly and q________ that you may not feel anything different.
Keys: kind, likes, eggs, people, else, chosen, without, quietly

14.
My grandfather was a teacher. He was the headmaster of a school for boys between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. I know that he was a kind man when I was young (and he was old), he gave me presents, and sat me on his k______ and told me s_______. But I believe the boys at his school were a_______ of him. At school, when he walked into a room full of naughty boys, they stopped t______ at once. When he looked at a boy with a certain look in his eyes, that boy was red in the face, and looked down at his s_______. If a boy brought him p______ homework, my grandfather would pick up the boy's book and throw it across the room, shouting.
"Do it again, and bring it back first thing in the morning!" If the boy was late, or if he f______ to bring his work, he had to do it again, and again, and yet again.
Keys: knees, stories, afraid, talking, shoes, poor, forgot

15.
No one knows why we sleep, but it is certain that we need to. People who are prevented from sleeping begin to suffer obvious effects after a few days---they think l_____ clearly, and they fall asleep d_____ the working hours. There are no rules about sleep. Generally speaking, grown-ups sleep about 7 and a half hours each night, and probably more than 60% get b______ seven and eight hours. But perhaps eight percent are quite happy with 5 hours or less, and four percent or so feel that they want ten hours or more. If you feel all right, you are probably getting e______ sleep. The important thing is not how much other people get. Their need may be different. Exercise doesn't seem to increase the need for sleep. Office workers, for example, sleep for about as long as people doing physically active work. C_____ sleep more than grown-ups do. Sleep patterns also tend to be different in the old people, who may sleep less at night than they did w_____ they were younger. They find sleep getting more broken, and often make it a rest to sleep during the d______.
Keys: less, during, between, enough, Children, when, daytime

16.
The police do many things for us. They help keep our things and us safe. They help keep cars m______ safely. They take care of people who are h________, then they see these people get to a doctor. The police go around town to see that everything is all right. They get around town in many w______. Some of them walk or go by car. In some big cities, some of the police e_____ ride on horses. It is strange to see these animals in the street.
As they go around town, the police help people. Sometimes they find 1_____children. They take the children home. If the police see a fight, they put an end to it right away. Sometimes people will ask the police how to get to a p________ in town. The police can always tell the people which way to go. They know all the streets and roads well.
Some police stand at crossings. They tell the cars when to go and when to stop. They make sure that the cars do not go too fast. They help children cross the street. They also help people who can't walk too well.
W______ the police, our streets would not be safe. Cars might go too fast and hurt people. Lost people might never be f________. The police do a great job.
Keys: move, hurt, ways, even, lost, place, Without, found

17.
About 97% of water on the earth is sea water, or salty water. Man can only drink or use the other 3% of f______ water which comes from rivers, lakes and u_______.
The sea is very big. Look at the m________ of the world. There is more sea than land. It covers three quarters of the earth. It looks very beautiful when the sun is shining on it. But it can be t_____ when there is a strong wind.
Some parts of the sea are very deep. There is one place near Japan. It is n________ 11 kilometers deep. The highest mountain in the world is about 9 kilometers high. If we put that mountain into the sea at that place, there would be 2 kilometers of water a________ it!
The Dead Sea is not a sea. It is a big lake. It is the saltiest lake. The sun is hot there and the water is salty. Fish can't live in the Dead Sea and p______ can't grow near it.
People can't swim well in the Dead Sea, but they can f_______ on the water. The water is very blue and the air is clean. In winter, people come to the Dead Sea to enjoy the sunshine.
Keys: fresh, underground, map, terrible, nearly, above, plants, float,
18.
Mr. Smith stood at the bus stop and w_______ the cars going by. Many of the cars were new Bluebirds, and most of them were w_______. Mr. Smith always wore the same clothes, ate the same food, and did the same things as the other people. Mr. Smith did not like to be d______.
The f______ week, Mr. Smith bought a new white Bluebird car. He was very pleased with it and drove to work in it the next day. He was even more pleased with his new car when he saw all the other Bluebirds, in front, behind, and on both side of him.
Mr. Smith p______ his car in a big car-park near his office. But when he came back f______ work, there were so many bright white Bluebirds in the car-park that Mr. Smith did not know which car was his. He tried his k______ in some of the cars, but people passing by gave him a s______ look, so he stopped. Mr. Smith had to wait nearly two hours u______ his car was the only white Bluebird.
Keys: watched, white, following, parked, from, key, strange, until.

19.
Everybody gives a lot of time doing something about the weather. You get dressed every day. You wear warm clothes in winter and put on light clothes in s_____. You take an u______ when it looks like rain, and you put on boots when it snows. If it is cold at night, you put on more blanket on your bed. If it is hot, you take them a_______. Every time you do any of those things, you have done just about the weather.
There are lots of people who earn a 1_____by doing something about the weather, such as the people who make raincoats and u________, the ones who make air-conditioners, the people who sell these things or fix or deliver them, the people who help to build buildings and the ones who make the tools and materials.
People spend lots of money doing something the weather. They buy clothes, they pay rents or buy houses, they buy coal, oil or gas to w_____ the houses and they also buy air-conditioners to cool them in hot summer.
Can people change the weather by doing these? No, but they change what weather does to people. Weather is one of the main things that make us live the w________ we do.
Keys: summer, umbrella, away, living, umbrellas, warm, way.

20.
Bill was fourteen years old and in the ninth grade. He had a p_____ job which got him up at five o'clock. He was a newspaper boy.
Each morning, Bill left the house at five fifteen to go to the corner. The newspapers had been sent to the corner by truck at m_______. He always rode a bicycle to carry them.
In the winter it was still d_______ when he got up. But during the rest of the year it was bright. Bill had to send newspapers to the house of people in all kinds of w_______. He tried to put each paper in the box where it would be kept s________ from wind and rain or snow. His customers thought he did a good j_______. Sometimes they gave him tips.
Bill made about $70 a month, and he was saving some of the money to go to college. He spent the rest on tapes and clothes. Once a month he had to get the money from his customers together. Since many of them worked during the day. Bill had to get the money at night.
Sometimes, when Bill was ill. his elder brother had to send the newspaper. O____ Bill's father had to help him.
Keys: part-time, midnight, dark, weather, safe, job, Once.

21.
In Britain you are a_______ to drive a car when you are seventeen. You have to get a two-year driving license before you can start. When you're learning, someone with a full license always has to be in the car with you because you are not allowed to drive the car on the road a_____. You don't have to go to a driving school—a friend can teach you. The person with you isn't allowed to take money for the lesson u______ he's got a teacher's license.
B_______ you're allowed to have a full license you have to take a driving test. You can take a test in your own car. In the test you have to drive round for about half an hour and then answer a few questions. If you don't p______ the test, you're allowed to take it again a few weeks later if you want to. Once there was a woman who passed her fortieth test after 280 driving lessons!
When you've passed your test you don't have to take it again, and you're allowed to go on driving as long as you l________, if you are healthy. Britain's o________ driver was a man who drove at the age of 100.
Keys: allowed, alone, Before, unless, pass, like, oldest.

22.
How old is "old"? The answer has covered over the years. Two hundred years ago, you were old at 35. At the b________ of the 20th century, the average life span was 45. In 1950, a 70-year-old was really old. Today, a h________70-year-old is still thought young.
So how old is old? The answer is one you've had many times, from all kinds of people, "You're as old (or young) as you feel." Your age simply tells you how many years you have lived. Your body tells you how w you've lived.
"Nobody grows old by living a number of years," wrote a writer. "People grow old when they don't have their ideas." People shouldn't have the wrong ideas about ages. S_____ older minds can be as bright as young minds. Alice Brophy once said, "It makes me unhappy when people say: ' You look young for your a_____.' What does that m ? You k ______you can die old at 30 and live young at 80."
Keys: beginning, healthy, well, Since, age, mean, know.

23.
Have you ever wondered where these nice little Teddy Bears came from? They were n_____ for President Roosevelt in 1902. When President Roosevelt was on a h_______ trip in Mississippi with others, one person caught a black bear and tied it up to a tree. President Roosevelt was asked to shoot the bear, but he r______ to do so and said it was nothing great to shoot a tied-up animal.
Then there was a picture and an animal in the next day's newspaper which showed the President refusing to shoot the bear. People all over America saw the picture. Morris Michtom, a shopkeeper in New York, put two toy bears made by his wife in the w________ of his shop. The President allowed Mr. Michtom to call them "Teddy Bear". Children everywhere liked the sweet little bears with black eyes. Soon Mr. Michtom started a f_______ to make Teddy Bears, and he m______ a lot of money.
T________, children all over the world still like Teddy Bear toys very much. They are also collected by people and many are on show in museums. Teddy Bears are s_______ in almost every toy shop.
Keys: named, holiday, refused, window, factory, made, Today, sold.

24.
In August, it is very hot and w______ in the southern part of the United States. People there have heart trouble and other kinds of health problems during this month. In the Northeast and the Middle West, it is very hot at some times and very cold at other times. People in these states have more heart trouble after the weather c_____ in February or March.
The weather can a______ influence intelligence. For example, in a 1983 report by scientists, the IQ of a group students were very h_______, when a very strong wind came, but after the strong wind, their IQ was 10% lower. The wind can help people have more intelligence. Very hot weather, on the other hand, can make it lower. Students in many schools of the United States often get w_______ on exams in the hot months of the year.
Low air pressure may make people f________. People, leave many bags on buses and in shops on low-pressure days. There is a "good weather" for work and health. People f_______ best at a temperature of about 18 centigrade.
Keys: wet, changes, also, high, worse, forgetful, fell.

25.
When some plates(板块)of the earth move suddenly, an earthquake happens. Many earthquakes begin under the sea. Earthquakes may happen a_______ on the earth. They often happen near the m_______. During an earthquake, the shaking m_ rocks rise suddenly and even crack, open. Houses fall, people are k_______ or hurt, and sometimes the whole v_______ or cities are destroyed.
Can we do something to keep o_______ safe from earthquakes? Scientists have studied earthquakes and made maps that show the "earthquake belts". In the areas of these belts, it's p_______ for an earthquake to happen. In these areas we should build s houses to fight against earthquakes.
In the future, scientists will be able to tell when and where an earthquake will happen before it does. They can also tell people what to do and how to do it.
Keys: anywhere, mountains, makes, killed, villages, ourselves, possible, strong

26.
Mr. Evans works in Sydney. Last week he had a two-week h_______, but he didn't know where to go. He said to his friend Robert. "I hate the hot weather here, but I can not find a comfortable place in Australia. How will I take my holiday?
"That is easy." said Robert. "You'd better go to Moscow. Snow and ice are covering the ground now."
Mr. Evans a with his friend. He bought an air ticket and soon arrived in Moscow. He made a happy journey there. But one day he got into t . After lunch he went to a park outside the city. He saw a dog following him while he was walking past a house. It was h________ and hoped he would give it some food to eat. Bad luck! He had no piece of bread or cake in his pockets. He tried to send it away. It began to bark at him. He wanted to look for a stick but couldn't find anything e______ snow and ice. Suddenly he saw a stone on the ground. He tried to pick it up, but he f______.
"How strange Russians are!" Mr. Evans said to himself. 'They do not tie their dogs, but firmly tie the s_______.
Keys: holiday, agreed, trouble, hungry, except, failed, stones.

27.
Jim is a boy of fifteen. His parents died three years ago and he had to m________ a living by himself. One day when he was walking in the street he found a wallet full of money. He found the o______, Mr. Jackson, and returned it to him. Mr. Jackson t_______ the boy very much. When he knew Jim didn't have a job, he hired him to work for him at his home. Jim worked hard and n____ touched anything expensive in the rooms. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson were satisfied with him,.
Mr. Jackson loved planting trees. There were a lot of trees in his garden. When he was f ____, he always watered them c_______.
The week before last, Mr. Jackson brought a few trees home, planted them in the garden and watered them every day. Several days later, he left for another city. Before he started, he said to Jim. "Take good care of the trees when I am away from home." Six days passed and Mr. Jackson came back. As soon as he saw Jim, he asked, "Has anyone come to steal the trees?" "No, sir," said Jim, "To stop someone from s_______ the trees, I pulled them up six days ago. I have hidden them for almost a week.
Keys: make, owner, thanked, never, free, carefully, from, stealing.

28.
In most part of the world, many students hope their school make less p_______. They j_______ "environment clubs". In an environment club, people work together to make our environment clean.
Here are some things students often do.
No-garbage lunches. How much do you throw away after lunch? Environment clubs ask students to bring their lunches in bags that can be used a_______. Every week they will choose the classes that make the least garbage and report them to the whole school.
No-car day. On a no-car day, n________ comes to school in a car. Not the students and not the teacher! Cars give pollution to our air, so remember: walk, bike or run. Use your l_____! It's lots of fun.
Turn off the water! Did you know that some toilets can waste twenty to forty cubic(立方) meters of water an hour? In a year, that would fill a small r_______! In environment clubs, students mend those broken toilets. We love our environment. Let's work t_______ to make it clean.
Keys: pollution, join, again, nobody, legs, river, together.

29.
Different culture and different people have different manners. We must find out their customs so that they will not think us ill-mannered. Here are e_______ of the things that a person with good e______ does or does not do.
If you visit a Chinese family, you should knock at the door f____. When the door opens, you will not move before the host says "Come in, please." After you enter the room, you would not sit down until the host asks you to take a seat. When a cup of tea is put on a tea table before you or sent to your hand, you will say "Thank you" and receive it with t________ hands, not one hand, or they will think you are ill-mannered. Before e_______ a house in Japan, it is a good manner to take off your shoes. In European countries, even though shoes sometimes become very dirty, this is not done. In a Malay house, a visitor never finishes the food on the table. He leaves a little to show that he has had e________. In England, a visitor always finished a drink or the food to show that he has e________ it. This will make the host pleased.
Keys: examples, education, first, two, entering, enough, enjoyed.

30.
Johnny Kelley is 86 years old. He has just run the last eleven kilometers of the Boston Marathon. It t_____ him one hour and fifteen minutes to run the eleven kilometers. After his run, he went to the hospital center. The nurse was s_______ and pleased to see that his blood pressure (血压) was 139 over 84. She told him that his blood pressure was very good. Then she said, "I wish mine was that good."
Johnny Kelley is known as the great grandfather of the Boston Marathon. He ran all 42 kilometers of Marathon 61t______. This year is the second time that he has cut back and run only part of it. Kelley holds the record for running more Boston Marathon than a________ else.
Thousands of people cried "come on" to him as he ran. Today an 11-year-old boy called out to Kelley, "Hey, Mr. Kelley, you are great. Great man!" Kelley s______ and thanked people as he ran. "It's wonderful, he said. "People come out to shake my hand. I am welcomed by thousands and thousands. I think a lot of them thought I ran the w race. And maybe they send congratulations to me b______ they know me after all these years and then don't know the other runners.
Keys: took, surprised, times, anyone/anybody, smiled, whole, because.

31.
It seems to be strange to you that there is a blind spot(盲点) on the eyes. Here is an interesting e_____ that can make something disappear, when one eye is open.
Make a card about the s_____ of a postcard and write two English letters L and R on it. L on the left and R on the right. First, hold the card about 80cm away and you see b______ the letters. Then close your right eye and look at the letter R only with your left eye. And now, as you m____ the card slowly towards you, you'll find the letter L disappearing. B____ if you move the card nearer to your face, the letter will be seen a_______. Now do the same experiment with your left eye closed, you'll find the letter R disappearing.
Why does the letter disappear? It is because there is a blind spot on the eye. When the i______ of the letter falls on the blind spot, it won't be seen.
Keys: experiment, size, both, move, But, again, image.

32.
We've talked about snails and their slow m_____. But much of the time snails don't move at all. They are in their shells——s_______.
Hot sun will dry out a snail's body. So at the least sign of hot sun, a snail draws its body into its shell. A snail will die in a h______ rain. So when it rains, a snail does the same thing, too. A snail can sleep for as long as it needs. It spends all the w____ months in its shell, asleep.
In the spring the snail wakes up. Its body, about three inches long, comes out from the shell. When h_____, the snail looks for food. Its eyes, at the end of the top feelers(触角), are very w_____. But its sense of smell is very strong. It helps the snail to find food and the new greens.
A snail' s mouth is not b_______ than the point of a pin. Yet it has 256,000 teeth! The teeth are very small, and you can't see them. If you put a snail in a hard paper box, it will eat its way out! And if a snail wears out its teeth, it will grow new o_____.
Keys: movement, sleeping, heavy, winter, hungry, weak, bigger, ones.

33.
Perhaps you have heard a lot about the Internet, but what is it, do you know? The Internet is a network. It uses the telephone to join millions of c______ together around the world.
Maybe that doesn't sound very interesting. But when you are c_______ with the Internet, there are lots and lots of things you can do. You can send E-mails to your friends, and they can get them in a few seconds. You can also deal with all kinds of i________ on the World Wide Web (WWW).
There are many different kinds of computers now. They all can be linked to the Internet. Most of them are small machines sitting on people's desks at home, but there are still many others in schools, offices or large c________. These computers are owned by people and firms, but no one really owns the Internet itself.
Thanks to the Internet, the world is becoming smaller and smaller. It is p_____ for you to work at home with a computer in front, getting and s_____ the information you need. You can buy or sell w______ you want by the Internet.
Keys: computers, connected, information, companies, possible, sending, whatever.
34.
A famous American writer was v_______ Japan last year. He went to a school to talk to a large group of students. Most of them could not u_______ English, so he had to have an interpreter(口译员).
In his talk, he told an interesting story. He spoke for a long time and then stopped for the interpreter to put it into Japanese. But he was very s_______ that the interpreter did this in a very few words, and all the students began to l______. After the talk, the writer thanked the interpreter for his good work, and then he said to him, "Now, tell me, young man, how could you put my long story into very few Japanese words and e_____ can understand my interesting story?" "I didn't tell the story at all." the man answered with a s _ _. "I only said to the students. ‘Our American f______ has just told us a very interesting story. Now please laugh.’"
Keys: visiting, understand, surprised, laugh, everyone/everybody, smile, friend.

35.
Many years ago milk was sold on the streets out of milk cans. The milk seller was often a f_____. He kept the cows. Each of the women ran out of her house with a pan. The man took out the milk with a smaller can and p_______ it into the pans. One day a doctor watched a farmer selling his milk. The farmer put his large milk can on the ground. People stood around the can with their pans to buy the milk. They were waiting to buy the milk.
The big can stood o____. A little girl holding a dirty doll ran up to the can. She wanted to see what was in the can. She looked in. Suddenly she c________, "My doll! I dropped it into the milk!"
Did the farmer throw away the r______ of the milk? Oh. No! He put his h_______ into the milk and felt around for the doll. Soon he brought it out. But the farmer didn't stop s______ the milk. He sold it all.
The doctor said to him, "The milk is now as dirty as the doll. It is not s______ to drink dirty milk." The doctor thought about this, and he tried to find out a better way for drinking clean milk. After that he thought of bottles for milk.
We can say that the doctor helped all of us, because we can get clean milk now and keep ourselves healthy.
Keys: farmer, poured, open, cried, rest, hand, selling, safe.

36.
Basketball is still a y______ game. It is not yet a hundred years. In the winter of 1891, a certain college was troubled with its boy students. The weather was so terrible that the students had to stay indoors. Since they could not e_____ their sports outside as usual, they were unhappy, and some of them even got into f_______ from time to time.
Finally one of the teachers at the college, J. E. Naismith was asked to invent a new game for the students. It was not an easy job because such a game had to be played i________ and the court was not very large.
Naismith thought for a few days and invented a kind of b_____ game. It was a fast, e________ game with much moving and passing of the ball. It was a game played between two teams. To make a score, the ball had to be thrown into a basket ten feet high above the floor on the wall.
At each end of the court there was such a basket. At first, Naismith had planned to have the ball thrown into a box. As he could not find boxes of the right size, he had to use fruit baskets i_____. That's how the game got its n________.
Keys: young, enjoy, fight, indoors, ball, exciting, instead, name.

37.
It seems to us that the earth stands quite still. But it is really m______ all the time. It turns around a make-believe line through its center. We call this make-believe line the earth's axis(地轴). The two e_______ of the earth's axis are called its poles (极). The earth travels twenty-four hours around its axis o_____.
We look at the sun and say it "travels" across the sky, but the sun doesn't r______ do so. The turning of the earth makes us feel as if the sun were moving across the sky. We can't see that the earth is moving b_______ everything else on the earth is turning with us. As the earth turns around every twenty-four hours, first one half f_______ the sun and then the other half does. When our half of the earth is facing the sun, we say it is "day". When our half is a_______ from the sun, we say it is "night". It is the turning of the earth that t______ us when to go to bed and when to get up.
Keys: moving, ends, once, really, because, faces, away, tells.

38.
Do you remember your dreams? Do people have same dreams? Why do we dream? There are many q_______ about dreams. We dream during the REM (rapid eye movement) stage of sleep. We have about five periods of REM sleep during the night. The first REM cycle lasts about 10 minutes. As the night goes on, the REM cycle gets longer. By early morning, the REM cycle can l_______ up to 90 minutes. Usually, it is in this last REM cycle that we r______ our dreams.
Dreams change as p________ age. People may have several dreams each night. Some are l______ films and usually in color. They come to us over and over again. That may be because the d_____ is worrying about something and trying to find the a_____. Sometimes we wake up with a good feeling from a dream. But o___ we can't remember the dreams c_____.
Keys: questions, last, remember, people’s, like, dreamer, answer, often, clearly.

39.
If you go into the f______ with friends, stay with them. If you don't, you may get lost. If you get lost, this is w you should do. Sit down and stay w______ you are. Don't try to find your friends but let them find you. You can help them find you by s______ in one place. There is a way to help your friends or other people to find you. You can shout or whistle three times stop, then shout or whistle three times again. Any signal given three times is a call for help.
Keep up shouting or whistling. Always three times t______. When people hear you, they will know that you are not just making a noise for fun. They will let you know that they have heard your signal. They will give you two shouts or two whistles. When a signal is given twice it is an answer to a call for help.
When you need water, you have to leave your little branch house to look for it. Don't j_____ walk away. Pick off small branches and drop them as you walk in order to go back again.
Keys: forest, what, where, staying, another, together, just.

40.
Mr. Brown was going away for a week. Before he left, he said to his son. "If a________ asks for me, you can tell him that your father has been out for d______ something, and will be back in a week, then be sure to ask him to sit down for a cup of tea."
"OK, Dad," said his son. But he was a_______ his son couldn’t remember this. He wrote these words down on a piece of paper and gave it to him. His son put it into his small pocket, took it out and looked at it every now and then.
Four days p________, but no one came to see his father. The boy thought that there was no man to come and the piece of paper was of no more u________ for him, so he burnt it that evening.
The next afternoon, someone knocked at the door. The boy opened it. A man was s________ at the door and said, "Where is your father?" The boy put his hand into his pocket at once and looked for the piece of the paper. He could not find it. He s________ remembered he had burnt it, so he shouted. "No more."
The man was very s________. He asked. "No more? I met your father last week. When did it happen?" "Burnt yesterday evening."
Keys: anyone/anybody, doing, afraid, passed, use, standing, surprised, suddenly

41.
'Depend on yourself" is what nature says to e______ man. Parents can help you. Teachers can help you. O_____ still can help you. But all these people only help you to help yourself.
There have been many great men in h . Many of them were very p_______ when they were young, and had no uncles, aunts, or friends to help them. Schools were few and not very good. They could not depend on them for e______. They tried their best to learn something and never gave up till they became well-known. One of the most famous teachers in England used to tell his students. "I cannot make worthy men of you, but I can help you make men of yourselves." Some young men don't try their best to make themselves valuable to the human being. If they see their weak points and change their ways, they can be s______. They are nothing now, and will be nothing as long as they live, unless they accept the a_______ of their parents and teachers, and depend on themselves.
Keys: every, Others, history, poor, education, successful, advice.

42.
We have been in Australia for three days. We are having a great time here. Australia is the sixth largest country in the world. There is so much to see that is i_______ for me to tell you everything. Sydney is a beautiful city. There are also some special a______ in Australia, such as kangaroos and koalas. They are really l______.
D______ the past five days we’ve visited many places of interest around Sydney. I’d like to spend more time here, but we will f_____ to another city, Cairns, to see coral beds tomorrow. It is said that words cannot d______ the beauty of the colorful corals. Many famous cartoon films were m______ there. Now we are beginning packing our bags so that we will not lose time when we leave. We can enjoy o______ in Cairns this time tomorrow. I am looking forward to going there!
Keys: impossible, animals, lovely, During, fly, describe, made, ourselves.

43.
Dick was born in a r_____ family. His parents often traveled in the world when he was young. So his father learned English, German and Arabic. He could talk with the foreigners and knew a lot about the countries which he traveled in.
Now his father was too old to go on traveling. Dick had to go abroad a_____. He could speak only French. It brought him a lot of t______. He thought English is w______ spoken in many countries, so he decided to learn the language. He went to one of the famous professors in Paris and asked the man to teach him. Half a year l______ the young man thought he had learned English. He called on his teacher and said, “You are the b_____ teacher in the world! I’m leaving now, but you’ll be my teacher f_______. Could you tell me how to thank you?”
“Well, then,” said the professor, “I wish you could do one thing: Don’t tell a______ that I’ve taught you.”
Keys: rich, alone, trouble, widely, later, best, forever, anyone/anybody.

44.
Newspapers are very important in our d______ life. Many people begin their day by r______ the paper. In this way they learn w_____ is going on in the world. Sometimes, however, they don’t have the time to read the news carefully and must be pleased with a quick look at the front page. At other times they may be in such a hurry that they have time o____ to have a quick look at the headlines.
There are newspapers to please every reader. In big cities there are many types with several different editions every day. In some towns there are fewer newspapers and perhaps only edition each day. In some places the paper is printed w_______.
Most newspapers have several editions, especially on Sundays when the edition is larger than u_____. There are beside the front page with the most i______ news, the sports news, the a______ page, the business page and so on.
Keys: daily, reading, what, only, weekly, usual, important, amusement.

45.
Life on the earth d______ on the sun. Day after day we see its light and feel its warmth. The sun is far away from the earth. It is ninety-three million miles away from the earth.
The sun is a large star. The earth is very small among its p______. Every day the sun sends out a great deal of heat and makes us feel hot. But we receive only a small part of the heat, b______ the sun is so far away from us and its light l_____ more of its energy when it reaches the earth. We also receive a very small part of its l_____. This is e_____ for the growth of trees, plants and h_____. On the other hand, much heat and light would be h_____ to them. The heat and light from the sun come in just the right quantities for l_____ on the earth.
Keys: depends, planets, because, loses, light, humans, harmful, life.