专题06 首字母填空20篇（最新名校期末好题）-2022-2023学年八年级英语下学期期末考点大串讲（牛津上海版）

专题06 首字母填空20篇（最新名校期末好题）（解析版） 学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________ 一、短文首字母填空 （2022春·上海静安·八年级名校校考）Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words. How do you light up the night sky? The answer is by using electricity. But did you know that nature can glow, too? Scientists have found many glowing creatures. Most of them live in the ocean. Some use their lights to talk to each other. O____1____ use them to hunt or to protect themselves. Scientists around the world are looking at this kind of light for new i____2____. In 2013, the US company Gleaux said it had created the world’s first light-producing plant. It is a genetically-modified (转基因的) plant. It can glow like a firefly. Alexander, the company’s founder, and other scientists hope that in the future, glowing plants could r____3____ lamps and glowing trees could line highways. Krichevsky a____4____ hopes the technology could be used in farming. Farmers could know when their crops need water or are ready to be picked if they glow. While Gleaux is working o____5____ glowing plants, the French company Glowee is trying to use glowing bacteria (细菌) to light up shop windows and street signs. “Our goal is to learn the way we p____6____ and use light,” said Glowee. “We want to help reduce the 19 percent of e____7____ consumption (消耗量) that is used to produce light.” 【答案】1．(O)thers 2．(i)deas 3．(r)eplace 4．(a)lso 5．(o)n 6．(p)roduce 7．(e)lectricity 【导语】本文介绍了人们正在想办法把发光的动物，植物和细菌用于农业和生活中，这样我们就能改变产生电和使用光的方法。 1．句意：有些则用它们来捕猎或保护自己。根据“Some use their lights to talk to each other.”和首字母o，可知空处应是other，some...others...表示“一些……，另一些……”。故填(O)thers。 2．句意：世界各地的科学家都在研究这种光，寻找新的想法。结合下文，可知科学家们想利用这种光，结合首字母i可确定空处为idea，空前没有不定冠词，因此应为复数形式。故填(i)deas。 3．句意：这家公司的创始人Alexander和其他科学家希望在未来，发光的植物能替代灯并排列在高速公路上。根据句意和首字母r，可知空处应为replace表示“代替”，在情态动词could之后应为动词原形。故填(r)eplace。 4．句意：Krichevsky还希望这项技术能用于农业。根据语境，上文提到了发光植物用来替代灯，下文谈到了发光植物用在农业中，结合首字母a，也推断空处为also，表示“也”。故填(a)lso。 5．句意：当Gleaux从事于研究发光植物时，法国公司Glowee正试图用发光细菌照亮商店的橱窗