专题02 短文首字母填空20篇（名校最新期中真题）-2023-2024学年九年级英语上学期期中复习查缺补漏冲刺满分（牛津上海版）

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专题02 短文首字母填空20篇

（2022秋·上海徐汇·九年级上海市西南位育中学校考期中）Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words. (首字母填空，每空格限填一词，首字母已给)

New York City’s police department (NYPD) has decided to return a robot dog. Though the robot worked well, it upset many people. Some thought it was “creepy (吓人的)”. Others w    1     that it would invade (侵犯) their privacy.

Spot is a dog-shaped robot built by a tech company. The robot has four legs, so even on rough ground it can move e    2    . Instead of a head, the robot has a camera. It also has a microphone and a speaker, and people can control it from a distance.

In December, 2020, the NYPD announced (宣布) that it would begin using a special version of Spot. Their robot was painted blue. It has a special camera to allow it to “see” everything on all sides of it. They called their version “Digidog”.

The robot cost the NYPD about $94,000. That may seem like a lot of money, but it’s cheap for a robot.

When it announced Digidog, the NYPD said, “This dog is going to save lives, protect people, and protect officers, and that’s our g    3    . ”

They soon found out that not everyone was excited about the robot as they were. After the robot was brought to an emergency call in February, a video of it was shared w    4    , and upset a lot of people.

Many people were concerned that the police were using an electronic dog for spying (暗中监视). Others felt like it was wrong for the police to spend money on machines. They should focus on p    5    .

For many people, the concern wasn’t just about this robot dog, but about what future police robots might look like. For example, they feared that the police might use a robot that could control its o    6     movements, or one that carried weapons.

When the dog was used a    7     in late April, 2021, another video was shared on the Internet. Many people were still upset. As a result of the strong public reaction, the NYPD decided to get rid of Digidog, and to return him to the tech company.

 

（2022秋·上海奉贤·九年级校联考期中）在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给。

The History of the Guinness Book of World Records

Are you interested in world records? Do you want to know who the oldest person is in the world? Or the largest cake? Or the heaviest newspaper? Well, if you do, you can find all the a    8     from an amazing book: the Guinness Book of World Records《吉尼斯世界纪录大全》.

The idea for this book started from an argument. Hugh Beaver worked for Guinness (金氏啤酒) Company in Britain. One day he went out for a walk with his friends. When some birds flew across the sky, he said they were the fastest birds in the world. Nobody a    9     with him. He made a bet (打赌) with his friends. The next day, he tried to solve the problem by reading some books in a library. H    10    , he found out that none of the books had the information he needed. He suffered a heavy loss (损失), but came up with a good idea: If his company could publish such a book with all the world records, he was sure that he could make a lot of money.

Everything was hard at the beginning. Beaver had great d    11     in collecting the unusual records. But when the first Guinness Book came out in 1995, it sold like hot cakes. In fact, his book has r    12     one of the best sellers for many years.

Today, the book is published throughout the world. Every year, a new book is published to keep up with the c    13     records. It is one of the most p    14     books in the world. By now almost everyone agrees that reading the book is not only a lot of fun, but also an eye-opener.

 

（2022秋·上海徐汇·九年级上海市徐汇中学校考期中）在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给。

Small business big treats

A 12-year-old girl starts her own business selling dog treats(零食).

During the pandemic(疫情), many people spent more time with their pets at home. But a seventh-grader used this time to set up her own business—selling dog treats.

Jasmine Thomas-Gainey, 12 years old, lives in Marin County, US. She f    15     Doggy Dog Treats By Jazzy during the pandemic. Her pet Chihuahua helps test the treats before they get sold.

In an interview with the Marin Independent Journal, Thomas-Gainey said that her dog, Buddy, loves the home-baked treats she makes.” Whenever we bake them, he is standing by the k    16    , and whenever we are packing them up, he is s    17     following us,” she said. “After I figured out the things dogs can eat, I came up

with my own dog recipes(食谱),” said Thomas-Gainey. “I have learned more about w    18     dogs can and can’t eat. It was interesting to do the research.”

“I like seeing the r    19     that people leave.” said Thomas-Gainey. “And I also like seeing if they post s    20     on their Instagram of their dogs happy about the treats.”

One of the things Thomas-Gainey enjoys most is having her own business at a young age.

“You can never be too young,” she said. “When you start so young, it opens a lot more possibilities, and there’s more time for you to grow.”

Thomas-Gainey always feels encouraged by her mother, so she is more positive and c    21     now, even in the face of difficulties. She has learned a lot by starting her own business.

 

（2022秋·上海长宁·九年级上海市新泾中学校考期中）在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺。每空格限填一词，首字母已给。

The night before Christmas, a man punished his five-year-old daughter for using up all of the family’s expensive wrapping paper. Money was tight (紧张的), and he became very a   22    when the child tried to wrap a box to put under the Christmas tree.

However, the next morning, the little girl, who was f   23    with excitement, brought the gift box to her father’s bedroom and said to him, “This is for you, Daddy! Merry Christmas and I love you!”

The father was embarrassed by his e   24    reaction (反应) to the little girl. But when he opened the box, he found it empty and lost his temper again. “Don’t you know, young lady,” he said, “Anytime you want to give someone a p   25   , it is necessary to put something inside the box!”

The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes and said, “Daddy, it’s not empty. Last night, I blew kisses into it u   26    it was all full.”

The father fell on his knees and put his arms around his little girl. He begged her to forgive him for his anger.

After that, the father k   27    the little box by his bed for all the years of his life. Whenever he was discouraged or faced difficult problems, he would open the box c   28   , take out a kiss, and remember the love of his beautiful child who had put kisses in it. Then he could get through the darkness in his life.

 

（2022秋·上海浦东新·九年级上海市进才中学北校校考期中）Read the passage and fill in the blanks with