专题07阅读首字母填空-【好题汇编】备战2024-2025学年九年级英语上学期期末真题分类汇编（上海专用）

专题07 阅读首字母填空 1.（2024·静安·一模） Travel Alone I am so excited. Also a little nervous! I am off on a trip on my own. Yes! Alone! I am feeling so brave and can’t wait to get going. I am heading off to Europe to see some cities I really want to visit. I am also going to have so much fun. It is great b____1___ I can choose what I want to do in each city. I am going to travel by train on the Euro-rail. I can buy one train ticket that l____2____ two weeks, and use it all over Europe. The train trip across Italy was fast and the v____3___ of the countryside were beautiful. Now I am in Salzburg, Austria. The quiet hills of Austria are a great place to visit. The movie The Sound of Music was filmed around this area. It is truly beautiful. I enjoy the n____4___ scenery of the mountains and the Danube River from my hotel window. There are also many castles and cathedrals to visit. Mozart, the famous musician, was from here. I listened to some of his classical music. I could really r____5____ myself when I sipped on a hot cup of coffee. Amsterdam is a fun city, f____6____ of friendly locals and tourists. The train ride to Amsterdam was a long one. It gave me time to write some postcards to send back home. I spent the whole day exploring the art museums here. I took a boat ride a____7____ the many water canals(运河) and saw people wearing their wooden clogs(木屐). I even got to taste some delicious Dutch cheese. 【答案】1. (b)ecause 2. (l)asts 3. (v)iews 4. (n)atural 5. (r)elax 6. (f)ull 7. (a)long 【解析】 【导语】本文主要介绍了作者独自旅行的经历。 【1题详解】 句意：这很棒，因为我可以选择我想在每个城市做事情。此处需要连词，根据“It is great”和“I can choose what I want to do in each city”可知，前后两句因果关系，故填(b)ecause。 【2题详解】 句意：我可以买一张持续两周的火车票，然后在全欧洲使用它。此处为定语从句，缺谓语，根据“use it all over Europe”可知，车票能持续两星期，因为先行词为ticket，且根据前后文可知时态为一般现在时，故填lasts。 【3题详解】 句意：穿越意大利火车之旅很快，乡村的景色也很美。此处应填名词，根据“were beautiful”可知，是乡村的景色，因为动词是were，所以要用名词的复数。故填(v)iews。 【4题详解】 句意：我从旅馆的窗口欣赏着群山和多瑙河的自然风光。此处应填形容词，修饰名词scenery，根据后文“scenery of the mountains and the Danube River ”可知，群山和多瑙河的风景，属于自然的景色。故填(n)atural。 【5题详解】 句意：当我喝一杯热咖啡时，我真的可以放松自己。根据could可知，此处填动词原形。根据“I listened to some of his classical music.”（我听他的古典音乐）和 “when I sipped on a hot cup of coffee.”（当我喝一杯热咖啡时）可知，可以能够放松自己。故填(r)elax。 【6题详解】 句意：阿姆斯特丹是一个有趣的城市，充满了友好的当地人和游客。这里定语后置，根据“friendly locals and tourists”可知，应该是充满了友好的当地人和游客。故填(f)ull。 【7题详解】 句意：我乘船沿着许多运河航行并且看到人们穿着木屐。这里填介词，根据“the many water canals(运河)”可知，沿河航行，故填(a)long。 2.（2023·闵行·一模） Apps to excite your inner artist Staying at home without teachers and classmates, you probably will play with your smart phone to get through the long days. But how can you unlock your phone’s full potential? Start downloading some interesting and creative apps that will help you k____1____ time and boredom. We have chosen three for you. Try them out and have fun. Easy Voice Changer When you watch sci-fi movies, you may have noticed that people can change their voices in phone calls and recordings. Do you want to have this magical a____2____? Well, Easy Voice Changer will make your wish come true. It’s quite easy to use. Users simply record their voices in the app. Then, it can change to sound like different voices. These i____3____ voices of an alien, a robot, a monster, a kid, a bee, a ghost and many more. If you want to have fun with your friends, why not send them a freaky phone recording? Meme (表情包)Generator Free We are the meme generation. Young people are not willing to send text. They prefer using memes to make a point i____4____. But do you want meme special memes? Make your own, with Meme Generator Free! The app has more than 1,000 high-quality meme templates (模板) to use. You can choose photo or snap (拍照) one to insert onto the template. Your friends will appreciate your imagination and thank you for giving them a r____5____ to laugh. Psychedelic (迷幻的) Camera Are you tired of following rules? Do you just want to make something a____6____? You definitely need to check out Psychedelic Camera. The app lets you choose pictures from your photo gallery and add filters (滤镜) to it. “You can simply power up the camera and view your surroundings in chaotic (混乱) colors and patterns — it’s delightful. So that it is hard for anyone to r____7____ you anymore.” said Anmol Sachdeva on US technology website Beebom. 【答案】1. (k)ill 2. (a)bility 3. (i)nclude 4. (i)nstead 5. (r)eason 6. (a)mazing 7. (r)ecognize 【解析】 【导语】本文介绍了三款激起你内心的艺术家的应用程序。 【1题详解】 句意：开始下载一些帮助你消磨时间和无聊的有趣且有创意的应用程序。根据“help sb. do sth”可知，此处填动词原形。根据“ interesting and creative apps”（有趣且有创意的应用程序）可知，能帮助消磨时间；故填(k)ill。 【2题详解】 句意：你想拥有这种神奇的能力吗？根据“this magical”（这种神奇的）可知，后面填名词单数。根据前文“When you watch sci-fi movies, you may have noticed that people can change their voices in phone calls and recordings.”（当你观看科幻电影的时候，你可能已经注意到人们能在电话和录音中改变自己的声音。）可知，此处指的是前文提及的这个神奇的能力。故填(a)bility。 【3题详解】 句意：这些声音包括外星人、机器人、怪物、孩子、蜜蜂、鬼魂和许多其他的声音。主语these后面缺少谓语动词，由于前后文都是一般现在时，所以这里填动词的复数形式。根据前文“Then, it can change to sound like different voices.”（它能变成听起来像不同的声音），可知此处讲这些不同的声音可能包括什么，故填(i)nclude。 【4题详解】 句意：取而代之地，他们更喜欢用表情包来表达观点。此处填副词，根据前文“Young people are not willing to send text.”（年轻人不愿意发文本）可知，取而代之地，他们更喜欢用表情包来表达观点。故填(i)nstead。 【5题详解】 句意：你的朋友会欣赏你的想象力，感谢你给了他们一个大笑的理由。根据前文“You can choose photo or snap (拍照) one to insert onto the template.（你可以选择照片或捕捉一个插入到模版中）”可知，由于是自己做的表情包，所以给了朋友们大笑的一个理由。故填(r)eason。 【6题详解】 句意：你只是想做出令人惊呀的事情吗？根据“something”可知，后面填形容词。又根据“Are you tired of following rules?”（你是否已经厌倦于遵守规则？）可知，想做一些令人惊讶的事情。故填(a)mazing。 【7题详解】 句意：这样对任何人而言辨认出你是困难的。根据“It is adj. for sb. to do”可知，这里填动词原形；根据“The app lets you choose pictures from your photo gallery and add filters to it.”（这个应用程序让你从你的照片集里选择照片并为之添加滤镜）可知，给照片添加滤镜之后，让别人难以认出自己；故填(r)ecognize。 3.（2023·奉贤·一模） In classes, your teachers will talk about topics that you are studying. The information they provide will be important for your tests. Therefore, you must be able to take good written notes of what your teachers say. Here are the three stages of notetaking and what you should do during each stage. Get ready to take notes (before class) • Review your notes from the previous（之前的）class before you come to class. This will help you r___1___ what you have learned before and get you ready for new information. • Complete the assigned（布置的）reading tasks before class. You’re e___2___ to do this for further understanding. • Bring your pens and pencils as well as your notebook. Take notes(during class) • Focus on what your teacher is saying. Listen for “signal statements” such as “The most important point is...” or “Remember that...”. Be s___3___ to write down what your teacher repeats or writes on the blackboard. • Write q___4___ so that you can include all the important information in your notes. Do this by using abbreviated（缩写的）words such as “med” for medicine. You may a___5___ use symbols such as “%”(for percent) and write short sentences. • Place a question mark next to the information you have written in your notes but about whose meaning you are not sure Rewrite your notes(after class) • Rewrite your notes to make them more detailed by c___6___ abbreviations into whole words, symbols into words, and shortened sentences into longer sentences. • Make your notes more a___7___ by referring to your textbook and reference sources. If necessary, ask your teacher or other students for help. • Check with other students so that you won’t leave out any important information. 【答案】1. (r)emember 2. (e)xpected 3. (s)ure 4. (q)uickly 5. (a)lso 6. (c)hanging 7. (a)ccurate 【解析】 【导语】本文主要讲述记笔记的三个阶段，以及每个阶段应该做什么。 【1题详解】 句意：这将帮助你记住你以前学过的东西，并为新的信息做好准备。根据“help sb. do sth.”可知，此处填动词原形。根据前文“Review your notes from the previous（之前的）class before you come to class.”（在你来课堂之前复习你之前课上的笔记）可知， 这样做能帮助帮助你记住学过的东西。故填(r)emember。 【2题详解】 句意：为了进一步理解，你被期待这样做。be后面可加过去分词表被动，根据“Complete the assigned（布置的）reading tasks before class.”（上课前完成布置的阅读任务）可知，为了进一步理解，学生被期待这样做。故填(e)xpected。 【3题详解】 句意：一定要记下老师重复的内容或在黑板上书写的内容。“be sure to do”一定要去做……。故填(s)ure。 【4题详解】 句意：快点写，这样你的笔记上就能包含所有的重要的信息。此处用副词修饰动词“write”,根据后文“Do this by using abbreviated（缩写的）words such as ‘med’ for medicine.”（通过缩写单词例如用med表示medicine）可知，上课快速写。故填(q)uickly。 【5题详解】 句意：你也可以使用像“%”（表示百分比）这样的符号，并写出简短的句子。此处句子成分不缺，所以填副词。根据上文“Do this by using abbreviated（缩写的）words such as ‘med’ for medicine.” （通过缩写单词例如用med表示medicine来快速写）可知，下文指的是快速写的另外一种方法，表示你也可以使用像“%”（表示百分比）这样的符号，并写出简短的句子。故填(a)lso。 【6题详解】 句意：重写你的笔记，通过把缩写的单词变成完整的单词，把符号变成单词，把短句变成长句，让笔记更详细。根据by可知填doing表示使笔记变得更为详细的方式，根据“abbreviations into whole words, symbols into words, and shortened sentences into longer sentences.”可知，此处指的是把缩写变成完整的单词，把符号变成单词，把短句变成长句。。故填(c)hanging。 【7题详解】 句意：通过参考课本和参考资料，让你的笔记更准确。根据make可知后面加形容词，又因为more可知为形容词的比较级。根据句意，参考课本以及教学参考资料之后，能使笔记内容更为准确的，故填(a)ccurate。 4.（2023·嘉定·一模） Do you like to try something new? Do you always try hard when you meet with problems? Here are four reasons for young people to try hard. ® It helps us to do well. We often look at people who are successful and wish we could be like them. Perhaps we think these people do well because they have a special talent or are clever or rich or even just l____1____. Having money, fortune or talent is almost never the main or only reason that people do well. Trying hard is sometimes even more important than any of those. People who rely only on their talent and do not work hard r____2____ succeed. ® It helps us to try new things. Sometimes we can be a bit scared of trying new things. We are afraid we will l____3____ silly if we can’t do it properly. This can prevent us from giving new things a chance or pushing o____4____ forward in something we already do. If we make up our minds to try hard at the new activity and give it our best shot, we could discover that it’s something we are getting to loving doing. ® It teaches us how to solve problems. Trying hard is not something we have to do a____5____. We can always ask for help and if we have a big problem, the best thing is to ask a parent or a teacher. Of course, we can solve problems on our own if we try hard. Trying hard means putting an e____6____ in even if we don’t get things right the first time. But remember, we learn from our failures. We learn we can try doing it another way. ® It makes us feel proud. Trying hard gives us a feeling of achievement. When we try hard and we succeed, it makes us feel confident about our a____7____. It teaches us that we can get better at things. It helps us behave well because we learn that we are capable (有能力的) of achieving things. 【答案】1. (l)ucky 2. (r)arely 3. (l)ook 4. (o)urselves 5. (a)lone 6. (e)ffort 7. (a)bility/abilities 【解析】 【导语】本文讲述了年轻人要努力尝试的四个理由。 【1题详解】 句意：也许我们认为这些人做得好是因为他们有特殊的才能或者是聪明的或者富有的，或者仅仅是幸运的。根据前面的系动词 “are”可知加形容词，根据下文“Having money, fortune or talent...”可知这里可填与fortune“幸运的”意思一致。故填(l)ucky。 【2题详解】 句意： 只靠天赋不努力工作的人很少成功。这里缺副词。根据前文“Trying hard is sometimes even more important than any of those.”（努力尝试有时甚至比那些更为重要的）可知，仅靠天赋不努力地很少会成功。故填(r)arely。 【3题详解】 句意：我们害怕如果我们不能恰当地做它，我们会看起来很傻。根据“will”可知用动词原形，根据“silly”可知填系动词。故填(l)ook。 【4题详解】 句意：这可能会阻止我们给新事物一个机会或在我们已经做的事情上推动我们自己向前。这里填宾语，根据后文“something we already do”可知是在我们自己做的事情上推动我们自己向前。故填(o)urselves。 【5题详解】 句意：努力尝试不是我们必须独自去做一些事情。根据后文“We can always ask for help and if we have a big problem，the best thing is to ask a parent or a teacher.”（我们能总是寻求帮助并且如果我们有大问题，最好的事就是请求家长或老师。）可知，并不一定必须要独自做事情。故填(a)lone。 【6题详解】 句意：努力意味着即使我们第一次没有把事情做对，也要付出努力。根据“an”可知加名词单数。根据后文“even if we don’t get things right the first time ”可知，如果第一次没有做好也需要努力。故填(e)ffort。 【7题详解】 句意：当我们努力尝试并取得成功时，这让我们对自己的能力充满信心。our后面填名词。根据后文“we learn that we are capable (有能力的) of achieving things.”（我们知道我们有能力完成事情。）可知，当我们获得成功之时，我们会对我们的能力有自信的。故填(a)bility/abilities。 5.（2023·杨浦·一模） For centuries, people have asked what makes us different from animals. We share almost 99 percent of our DNA with our closest relatives, chimpanzees, but have you ever w____1____ why they have never evolved [1] as fast as we have? The answer is our complex [2] brains. The earliest human brains from around 2 million years ago were only big enough to deal with simple signals, such as sight and smell. As we developed into Homo sapiens [3] 1.5 million years later, our brains grew three times bigger. This was to make space for new s____2____, like speech and problem-solving. However, recent research into animal intelligence has made some interesting discoveries, and scientists are starting to question the “f____3____” about our powerful intelligence. Animals don’t use language … except that several chimpanzees have already learned to use sign language, and some other animals have learned to communicate in meaningful ways. In the 1990s, Dr Pepperberg published her studies of working with Alex, a parrot that could remember and name over 50 different objects! Most importantly, Alex r____4____ makes mistakes. Animals aren’t a ___5__. of themselves … except that some chimpanzees, and a few dolphins and elephants, have all passed the “Mirror Test”. In a mirror test, a scientist puts some paint on an animal, and then puts the animal in front of a mirror and w____6____ its behaviour. When they see themselves in the mirror, these animals then check their own body for the paint. Animals can’t solve problems … except that some octopuses have the ability to c____7____ their movements and open containers with great force to get food out of them People who work in aquariums[4] have known this for years. And a study in 2014 made some important discoveries about some crows. It found that they could solve complex puzzles and use tools to get food. Word box [1] evolve v.进化 [2] complex adj.复杂的 [3] Homo sapiens智人 [4] aquarium n. 水族馆 【答案】1. (w)ondered 2. (s)kills 3. (f)acts 4. (r)arely 5. (a)ware 6. (w)atches 7. (c)ontrol 【解析】 【导语】本文主要就“人类真的比动物聪明吗”这一问题展开讨论。 【1题详解】 句意：我们和我们的近亲黑猩猩几乎有99%的DNA相同，但你想知道为什么它们从来没有像我们一样进化地那么快？根据助动词“have”可知此处是现在完成时，需要动词的过去分词。根据“why they have never evolved [1] as fast as we have”可知用动词表示“想知道”，故填(w)ondered。 【2题详解】 句意：这是为了给新技能腾出空间，像演讲和解决问题。根据“like speech and problem-solving”可知，此处列举了新的技能；故填(s)kills。 【3题详解】 句意：然而，最近对动物智力的研究有了一些有趣的发现，科学家们开始质疑关于我们强大智力的“事实”。此处需要名词。根据“however”可知这里和前文形成转折，前文在论述人比动物智力高，后文对人类有智力的“事实”提出了质疑；故填(f)acts。 【4题详解】 句意：最重要的是，Alex很少犯错。此处需要副词。根据前文“a parrot that could remember and name over 50 different objects”（一个鹦鹉能够记住并说出50多件物品的名称），和“more importantly”（更为重要的事）可知，后文讲述Alex很少犯错误。故填(r)arely。 【5题详解】 句意：动物意识不到它们自己。此处需要形容词。根据“When they see themselves in the mirror, these animals then check their own body for the paint.”（当它们看见镜子里的自己时，这些动物然后检查自己身体上的颜料），可知，标题中为动物意识不到它们自己。故填(a)ware。 【6题详解】 句意：在镜子测试中，一名科学家把一些颜料涂在一个动物身上，然后把这个动物放在镜子前，观察它的行为。此处需要动词。根据“a mirror test”（镜子测试）可知，需要观察动物的行为。根据前文puts可知是一般现在时，主语为一名科学家，故用动词的三单形式。故填(w)atches。 【7题详解】 句意：除了一些章鱼有能力控制自己的运动并用用很大的力量打开容器为了从中取出食物。根据“have the ability to do”可知此处需要动词原形。根据“open containers with great force to get food out of them”可知能够控制自己的运动才能打开容器。故填(c)ontrol。 6.（2024·宝山一模） In 2013, Diana Nyad became the first person to swim from Cuba(古巴) to Florida (美国弗罗里达州) without the help of a shark cage, at age 64. Diana was born in New York City but moved to Florida after her graduationfrom college. She began swimming at the age of 10 and showed t___1____ and love for the sport from an early stage. Under the coach of Jack Nelson, the former(昔日的) Olympic swimmer, she won a lot of long-distance swimming competitionsduring the 1960s and 1970s.Diana became well-known for setting a new r___2____ for swimming around the island of Manhattan (曼哈顿岛) in 1975 in a time of 7 hours and 57 minutes. At the age of 28, Diana tried to swim from Cuba to Florida for the first time, but was unsuccessful after high winds forced her to give up the journey.After experiencing v___3____ injuries and health problems, Diana felt the need for new challenges beyond the pool. At the age of 30, she became a journalist in broadcast. Diana loved her new job, but from the bottom of her heart, there still was an u___4____ goal. After 30 years of no swimming, Diana began training at age 60 with the goal of finishing what she started. In 2011, she failed the Cuba-to-Florida swim t___5____, first making it 29 hours and then 41 hours. The swim was too difficult and full of danger. During the long and tiring journey, Diana had met with terrible storm and deadly sea animals such as sharks and box jellyfish(箱形水母). But every time Diana failed, she was ready to fight back.In August 2012, after she had spent 60 hours in the water,a lightning storm and other problems stopped her for the fourth time. In 2013, 35 years after her first try, the 64-year-old Diana planned to swim from Cuba to Florida for a fifth time.After 52 hours 54 minutes and 18 seconds, Diana completed the historic swim with the help of a crew of doctors, scientists and navigators on September 2. She finally became the first person to a___6____ the close-to-impossible goal. In her book Find a Way, Diana sentus three messages: 1. We should never ever give up; 2. It’s never too old to chase your dreams; 3. The swim looks like an individual sport but a___7____it needsa team effort. 【答案】1. (t)alent 2. (r)ecord 3. (v)arious 4. (u)nfinished 5. (t)wice 6. (a)chieve 7. (a)ctually 【解析】 【导语】本文讲述了Diana的游泳事迹。 【1题详解】 句意：她在10岁开始游泳并从早期就展现出了对游泳的天赋和喜爱。此处需要名词。根据“She began swimming at the age of 10”可知，她很早就展现出了对游泳的天赋。故填(t)alent。 【2题详解】 句意：Diana在1975年以7小时57分钟游曼哈岛创了一个新纪录而出名。根据“in a time of 7 hours and 57 minutes”可知，是一个新纪录。故填(r)ecord。 【3题详解】 句意：在经历了不同的伤病之后和健康问题，Diana觉得在泳池外有必要游新的挑战；此处需要形容词。根据“ high winds forced her to give up the journey.”（大风迫使她放弃了行程。）可知，她有不同的伤痛和健康问题。故填(v)arious。 【4题详解】 句意：Diana热爱她的工作，但在她的心底，仍然有一个未完成的目标。此处需要形容词。根据前文“At the age of 28, Diana tried to swim from Cuba to Florida for the first time, but was unsuccessful after high winds forced her to give up the journey.”（在28岁时，Diana企图从古巴游到弗洛里达，但在大风迫使她放弃行程后没有成功。）可知，在她心底依旧有一个未完成的目标。故填(u)nfinished。 【5题详解】 句意：在2011年，她两次没有成功从古巴游到弗洛里达。此处需要副词。根据“first making it 29 hours and then 41 hours.”（首先是29小时，然后是41小时）可知，失败了2次。故填(t)wice 。 【6题详解】 句意：她最后成为了第一个完成几乎不可能实现目标的人。此处需要动词原形。根据“Diana completed the historic swim with the help of a crew of doctors, scientists and navigators on September 2. ”（Diana在9月2号，Diana在一组医生、科学家和导航员的帮助下完成了历史性的游泳。）可知，她完成几乎不可能实现的目标。故填(a)chieve。 【7题详解】 句意：游泳看起来像一个个人运动但实际上它需要一个团队的努力。此处需要副词。根据前文“Diana completed the historic swim with the help of a crew of doctors, scientists and navigators on September 2. ”（Diana在9月2号，Diana在一组医生、科学家和导航员的帮助下完成了历史性的游泳。）可知，实际上还需要团队的努力。故填(a)ctually。 7.（2024·青浦·一模） ( Name : Dame Jane Morris Goodall Born : 3 April 1934 Known for : Being the first person to study chimpanzees ( 黑猩猩 ) in the wild Important discoveries : Found that chimpanzees have emotions, use tools and eat meat ) (N: National Geographic Kids Magazine J: Jane Goodall) N:Hi Jane, when did you first know you wanted to work with animals? J: I was ten when I decided I wanted to go to Africa and live with wild animals and writebooks about them. That’s about 70 years ago now, and at that time then girls in England didn’t have those opportunities (机会). So everybody laughed at me and said, “Jane, d 1 about something you can achieve.” But my mother said, “If you really want something, you’re going to have to work hard and never give up!” N: Great a 2 ! What’s been unusual about the work you’ve done? J: I studied animals in a different way. While I was in Tanzania in the 1960s, other scientists told me I’d done my whole study of chimpanzees w 3 . They explained that I shouldn’t have given the chimpanzees names and that they should have been numbered. I was told I couldn’t talk about their personalities, minds or emotions because they thought only humans had those things. But luckily, I’d learned from my dog as a child that what they said was not t 4 at all. N: It sounds like having a childhood pet really helped you in your studies! What are you most p 5 of? J: Helping people to understand that humans are part of the animal kingdom, not separate from it. When I started out, nobody else was studying chimpanzees in the wild, so I was able to show how their behaviour is like o 6 – kissing, hugging, holding hands, patting one another, etc. N: What t 7 would you give to NG Kids readers who want to have a wild career like yours? J:  You’ve got to really, really want it! You could go to university and go straight into research, but there are also lots of chances for volunteering or for working at zoos. Keep your ears open for opportunities. N: Thanks for the chat, Jane! 【答案】1. (d)ream 2. (a)dvice 3. (w)rong 4. (t)rue 5. (p)roud 6. (o)urs 7. (t)ips 【解析】 【导语】本文介绍了研究在野外的黑猩猩的第一人Dame Jane Morris Goodall。 【1题详解】 句意：每个人嘲笑我说：“Jane，梦想一些你能够实现的事情。”根据“Jane,”可知，后面为祈使句，故用动词原形。根据前文“I was ten when I decided I wanted to go to Africa and live with wildanimals and writebooks about them. That’s about 70 years ago now, and at that time then girls in England didn’t have those opportunities (机会).”（当我决定去非洲并和动物一起生活并且写关于他们的书的时候，我是10岁。那是70年前，在那个时候，英格兰的女孩不能拥有这样的机会。）可知，每个人都嘲笑说：“梦想一些可以实现的事情”，故填(d)ream。 【2题详解】 句意：好建议！根据上文“But my mother said, “If you really want something, you’re going to have to work hard and never give up!”（但我妈妈说：“如果你真的想要一些事情，你将必须要努力工作并且不放弃。”）可知，下文指的是妈妈的这个建议，又因为advice不可数；故填(a)dvice。 【3题详解】 句意：当我20世纪60年代在坦萨尼亚的时候，其他科学家告诉我我错误地做了整个黑猩猩的研究。此处填副词修饰动词do。根据下文“They explained that I shouldn’t have given the chimpanzees names and that they should have been numbered.”（他们解释我不应该给黑猩猩命名并且它们应该被编号）可知，其他科学家认为我错误地做了研究。故填(w)rong。 【4题详解】 句意：我在我是一名孩子时从我的狗身上学到他们所说的完全不正确。系动词was后填形容词。根据上文“but luckily”可知与前文其他科学家认为她做错了形成转折，又根据下文“It sounds like having a childhood pet really helped you in your studies!”（它听起来在童年时期拥有一条宠物狗真的在你的研究上帮助了你）可知，其他科学家所说的完全不正确。故填 (t)rue。 【5题详解】 句意：你最骄傲的是什么。根据系动词are和most可知填形容词最高级，根据前后文可知是在她研究中最让她骄傲的地方。故填(r)eason。 【6题详解】 句意：当我着手做的时候，没有其他的人正研究在野外的黑猩猩，所以我能够展示它们的行为是如此的像我们的行为——亲吻，拥抱，握手，互相拍打等等。根据is like可知后面加名词。根据后文举例可知是我们人类也有的行为，故填名词性物主代词，指代我们的行为。故填(o)urs。 【7题详解】 句意：你能给想像你一样从事野外职业的国家地理杂志的儿童读者什么建议吗？。根据what可知后面填名词，根据后文回答“You’ve got to really, really want it! You could go to university and go straight into research, but there are also lots of chances for volunteering or for working at zoos. Keep your ears open for opportunities.可知是Jane给出的建议，所以用tip,因为是可数名词，故填(t)ips。 8.（2024·宝山·一模） The Value of Timekeeping Are you often late for things? Do you wish you could be more on time? Lots of people find it difficult to be on time. As the new school year starts, it’s good to brush up on timekeeping skills. Being punctual means being able to arrive somewhere, complete a task or meet someone at an agreed time. Examples i 1 getting to your classroom before the lesson begins, handing in your homework on time and arriving at a friend’s house when you say you’ll be there. Being late can feel stressful, not only for yourself but for the people around you.It also makes it easy to f 2 something important. “When I’m late,I feel disorganized and panicky(恐慌的).” says a student called Freddie. “But when I’m on time,I’m more r 3 because I don’t have to run around looking for things.” Being on time also makes you feel more prepared. Finishing a project early gives you e 4 time to make improvements. Packing your bags the night before a match or performance allows you to feel calmer and more focused the next day.By being punctual, you’re telling yourself that your time matters, and you’re showing other people that you’re reliable and you r 5 time,too. Grace Pacie is an author who writes about lateness. She believes there are lots of reasons why people aren’t punctual. Some aren’t good at measuring time;others dislikebeing early and waiting around. Pacie believes you can learn to be more punctual by arranging to meet a friend on the way to school b 6 this will make you get out of the doorearlier. Or, if you don’t like waiting around,try arriving early but fill your time with something interesting like listening to music or reading a book. It’s not always easy to change timekeeping h 7 .Taking small steps towards becoming more punctual can help you feel calmer and more organized. 【答案】1. (i)nclude 2. (f)orget 3. (r)elaxed 4. (e)nough 5. (r)espect 6. (b)ecause 7. (h)abit(s) 【解析】 【导语】本文讲述了守时的价值。 【1题详解】 句意：例子包括在课前到达你的教室、准时上交你的回家作业并且在你说你会在你朋友的家时到达你朋友的家。主语Examples后加谓语复数形式，因为前后文是一般现在时，所以这里也用一般现在时。动词前后为总分关系，所以逻辑上用包括，故填(i)nclude。 【2题详解】 句意：它也容易让人忘记一些重要的事情；根据make it easy to do,可知填动词的原形。根据前文“Being late can feel stressful, not only for yourself but for the people around you.”（迟到能感到压力的，不仅影响你自己而且也影响你身边的人）可知迟到给人带来了负面的影响，因此它也导致人容易忘记重要的一些事情。故填(f)orget。 【3题详解】 句意：但当我准时的时候，我感到更放松的因为我不需要到处跑去寻找东西。根据“am more”可知填形容词的比较级，根据后文原因“because I don’t have to run around looking for things.”（因为我不需要到处跑去寻找东西）可知，当准时时，会让人感到更放松的。故填(r)elaxed。 【4题详解】 句意：提前完成一个项目能给你足够的时间做改进。修饰名词time用形容词，根据前文“Finishing a project early”（ 提前完成一个项目）可知，能有足够的时间做改进。故填(e)nough。 【5题详解】 句意：通过准时，你正告诉你自己你的时间是重要的，并且你也展示给其他的人你是可靠的并且你是重视时间的。主语you后面缺谓语动词，根据前后文，这里用一般现在时。根据前文“By being punctual, you’re telling yourself that your time matters”（通过准时，你正告诉你自己你的时间是重要的可知，你重视时间。故填(r)espect。 【6题详解】 句意：Pacie相信通过在上学路上安排与一个朋友会面你能学会更准时因为这将使你更早地出家门。这里填连词，前后句为因果关系。故填(b)ecause。 【7题详解】 句意：改变守时的习惯总是不那么容易的。在timekeeping后填名词。这里再讲的都是改变守时的习惯。故填(h)abit(s)。 9.（2024·嘉定·一模） We know animals have emotions. They can feel fear. We also think they feel love, since they have strong relationships with each other. So are animal emotions s___1___ to our own? And do animals have a sense of humor? A Parrot’s Joke Sally’s parrot Bongo didn’t get along with her o____2___ parrot, Paco. In fact, Bongo clearly didn’t like Paco at all! One day, Sally cooked a chicken for dinner. She started to cut the chicken with a knife. “Oh, no! Paco!” Bongo said loudly and laughed. Sally laughed, too, and said,“That chicken is not Paco.”“Oh... no,” said Bongo. This time, she sounded d_____3____. Then the parrot laughed at her own joke. Yoga Dog Jean enjoys yoga and so does her dog Buffy. W____4____ Jean does yoga, Buffy carefully places her toys on Jean’s body. If a toy falls, Buffy runs to put it b_____5___. Does this behavior have any real purpose? “She thinks it’s funny!” says Jean. Animal Laughter Can dogs“laugh” ? Recent research shows that dogs can tell each other when they want to play. They make a special sound a kind of“laugh.” Psychologist (心理学家) Patricia recordedthe sound. Then she played it to dogs and s______6____ their behavior. “All the dogs seemed to like the laugh,” says Patricia. So do animals have a sense of humor? If laughter is a clue, then p_____7____the answer is “yes!”. 【答案】1. (s)imilar 2. (o)ther 3. (d)isappointed/(d)ifferent 4. (w)hen/(w)hile 5. (b)ack 6. (s)tudied 7. (p)erhaps 【解析】 【导语】本文以三个例子讲述论述可能动物和我们有相似的情感。 【1题详解】 句意：所以动物的情感和我们的相似吗？根据“be”可知填形容词。根据上文“We know animals have emotions.”（我们知道动物也有情感的），可知，这里论述动物有和我们相似的情感吗？故填(s)imilar。 【2题详解】 句意：Sally的鹦鹉Bongo和她的另一只鹦鹉Paco相处地不好。修饰“parrot”所以用形容词。根据前后文可知Sally就两只鹦鹉，所以填她的另一只鹦鹉。故填(o)ther。 【3题详解】 句意：这次，她听起来感到很失望的/不同的。根据系动词“sounded”可知填形容词。根据“She started to cut the chicken with a knife. “Oh, no! Paco!” Bongo said loudly and laughed. Sally laughed, too, and said,“That chicken is not Paco.”“Oh... no,” said Bongo.”（她开始用刀切鸡。“哦，不！Paco!”Bongo大声地说并且大笑。Sally也大笑并说：“那只鸡不是Paco.”“哦……不”Bongo说。）可知，Bongo一开始以为切的的Paco,当她知道不是的时候，声音听起来就失望的/和之前不同的。故填(d)isappointed/(d)ifferent。 【4题详解】 句意：当Jean做瑜伽的时候，Buffy小心地把她的玩具放在Jean的身体上。这里缺连词。根据前后句逻辑应该用时间状语从句。故填(w)hen/(w)hile。 【5题详解】 句意：如果有一个玩具掉了，Buffy跑过去把它放回去。这次缺副词。根据前文“W____4____ Jean does yoga, Buffy carefully places her toys on Jean’s body.”（当Jean做瑜伽的时候，Buffy小心地把她的玩具放在Jean的身体上。）可知，当玩具掉的时候，它把它放回去。故填(b)ack。 【6题详解】 句意：然后她把它播放给狗听并研究它们的行为。这里缺动词，因为前面是一般过去时，所以这里也是一般过去时，用动词的过去式。因为Patricia是心理学家，她做研究，故通过播放她录的声音研究狗的行为。故填(s)tudied。 【7题详解】 句意：如果笑声是一条线索的话，那么答案是“是的”。这里填副词。根据前文“If laughter is a clue”（如果笑声是一条线索）推测问题“do animals have a sense of humor?”（动物有幽默感吗？）的答案可能是“是的”。故填(p)erhaps。 10.（2024·金山一模） One of the first science fiction books published was Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth, written in 1864. This popular book marked the b 1 of our strong interest in science fiction. Since then, there have been books, magazines, computer games, radio and TV shows and films. A science fiction story doesn’t just focus on the future; it focuses on the use of science in our future. Sometimes things that are written in science fiction stories a 2 become true. Star Trek first appeared on television in 1966. The crew of the spaceship spoke to each other on small mobile devices. A robot starred in the 1927 film, Metropolis. In the 1982 film, Blade Runner, video communication was s 3 as an exciting thing of the future. This is one of the reasons why science fiction is so popular. It lets us think about how our world might be in the future. It gives us ideas about how we might make things on the Earth better than they are n 4 . It gives us possible solutions to problems. A 5 reason is that it begins to answer some of the biggest questions in life, questions like Are we alone in the universe? What could we do better? Science fiction gives us the chance to think about these questions and c 6 possible answers. People also like to get away from their daily lives through science fiction. It is d 7 to imagine a better way of doing this than reading a fantastic story about a place you have never been to and creatures you cannot imagine. It does this by making us feel that anything is possible. Perhaps science fiction could also make us feel lucky to live here on the Earth. Perhaps it could even make us take better care of our planet. 11.（2024·闵行·一模） People want to know if pre-made meals are healthy enough for teenagers. Pre-made meals refer to half-finished or finished dishes that are already cooked or prepared, according to the China Cuisine Association (中国烹饪协会). There are several kinds of pre-made foods: ready-to-eat food, such as canned food or cooked food in packages, and ready-to-heat or ready-to-cook food. These foods usually r 1 heating or cooking first before being served. Many people think that pre-made foods are less healthy because they usually need to be kept in f 2 . “In fact, freezing itself does not cause nutrition (营养) loss,” Liu Junya, a 33-year-old professor in diet in Beijing said. “But nutrition loss does happen when we heat or fry the food. Vitamins B and C in meat and vegetables can be lost during that p 3 . By being heated or cooked twice or more, pre-made foods can be less nutritious than freshly prepared and cooked foods,” Liu said. “B 4 , many pre-made food companies put the taste of food ahead of nutrition,” said Liu. This leads to higher level of salt and sugar in the food and may cause serious health problems in the long term. Additives (添加剂) are a 5 problem related to pre-made foods. They are mainly used to improve the flavour of the food, as well as to keep it, increase its shelf life, and color it. In China, food industry has already had modern technology to keep pre-made foods without any additives. In this way some food can be kept for a longer time. But it’s n 6 that customers only buy pre-made foods from big and qualified (有资质的) food companies or supermarkets. It is hoped that laws on pre-made meals can ensure better nutrition and hygiene (卫生). “In this way we hope pre-made meals will be a 7 by more and will bring convenience instead of worries to people. But at present, no one can tell.”Liu said. 【答案】1.(r)equire 2. (f)ridges/freezers 3. (p)rocess 4. (B)esides 5. (a)nother 6. (n)ecessary 7. (a)ccepted 【解析】 【导语】本文讨论了预制菜是否对青少年安全。 【1题详解】 句意：这些食物通常需要在被供应之前先要被加热和烹饪。主语foods后面缺谓语动词，因为是一般现在时，所以谓语用复数形式。预制菜需要在供应前被加热和烹饪。故填(r)equire。 【2题详解】 句意：许多人认为预制菜不健康因为他们通常被需要储存在冰箱内。故填(f)orget。 【3题详解】 句意：但当我准时的时候，我感到更放松的因为我不需要到处跑去寻找东西。根据“am more”可知填形容词的比较级，根据后文原因“because I don’t have to run around looking for things.”（因为我不需要到处跑去寻找东西）可知，当准时时，会让人感到更放松的。故填(r)elaxed。 【4题详解】 句意：提前完成一个项目能给你足够的时间做改进。修饰名词time用形容词，根据前文“Finishing a project early”（ 提前完成一个项目）可知，能有足够的时间做改进。故填(e)nough。 【5题详解】 句意：通过准时，你正告诉你自己你的时间是重要的，并且你也展示给其他的人你是可靠的并且你是重视时间的。主语you后面缺谓语动词，根据前后文，这里用一般现在时。根据前文“By being punctual, you’re telling yourself that your time matters”（通过准时，你正告诉你自己你的时间是重要的可知，你重视时间。故填(r)espect。 【6题详解】 句意：Pacie相信通过在上学路上安排与一个朋友会面你能学会更准时因为这将使你更早地出家门。这里填连词，前后句为因果关系。故填(b)ecause。 【7题详解】 句意：改变守时的习惯总是不那么容易的。在timekeeping后填名词。这里再讲的都是改变守时的习惯。故填(h)abit(s)。 ( 1 )原创精品资源学科网独家享有版权，侵权必究！ 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$ 专题07 阅读首字母填空 1.（2024·静安·一模） Travel Alone I am so excited. Also a little nervous! I am off on a trip on my own. Yes! Alone! I am feeling so brave and can’t wait to get going. I am heading off to Europe to see some cities I really want to visit. I am also going to have so much fun. It is great b____1___ I can choose what I want to do in each city. I am going to travel by train on the Euro-rail. I can buy one train ticket that l____2____ two weeks, and use it all over Europe. The train trip across Italy was fast and the v____3___ of the countryside were beautiful. Now I am in Salzburg, Austria. The quiet hills of Austria are a great place to visit. The movie The Sound of Music was filmed around this area. It is truly beautiful. I enjoy the n____4___ scenery of the mountains and the Danube River from my hotel window. There are also many castles and cathedrals to visit. Mozart, the famous musician, was from here. I listened to some of his classical music. I could really r____5____ myself when I sipped on a hot cup of coffee. Amsterdam is a fun city, f____6____ of friendly locals and tourists. The train ride to Amsterdam was a long one. It gave me time to write some postcards to send back home. I spent the whole day exploring the art museums here. I took a boat ride a____7____ the many water canals(运河) and saw people wearing their wooden clogs(木屐). I even got to taste some delicious Dutch cheese. 2.（2023·闵行·一模） Apps to excite your inner artist Staying at home without teachers and classmates, you probably will play with your smart phone to get through the long days. But how can you unlock your phone’s full potential? Start downloading some interesting and creative apps that will help you k____1____ time and boredom. We have chosen three for you. Try them out and have fun. Easy Voice Changer When you watch sci-fi movies, you may have noticed that people can change their voices in phone calls and recordings. Do you want to have this magical a____2____? Well, Easy Voice Changer will make your wish come true. It’s quite easy to use. Users simply record their voices in the app. Then, it can change to sound like different voices. These i____3____ voices of an alien, a robot, a monster, a kid, a bee, a ghost and many more. If you want to have fun with your friends, why not send them a freaky phone recording? Meme (表情包)Generator Free We are the meme generation. Young people are not willing to send text. They prefer using memes to make a point i____4____. But do you want meme special memes? Make your own, with Meme Generator Free! The app has more than 1,000 high-quality meme templates (模板) to use. You can choose photo or snap (拍照) one to insert onto the template. Your friends will appreciate your imagination and thank you for giving them a r____5____ to laugh. Psychedelic (迷幻的) Camera Are you tired of following rules? Do you just want to make something a____6____? You definitely need to check out Psychedelic Camera. The app lets you choose pictures from your photo gallery and add filters (滤镜) to it. “You can simply power up the camera and view your surroundings in chaotic (混乱) colors and patterns — it’s delightful. So that it is hard for anyone to r____7____ you anymore.” said Anmol Sachdeva on US technology website Beebom. 3.（2023·奉贤·一模） In classes, your teachers will talk about topics that you are studying. The information they provide will be important for your tests. Therefore, you must be able to take good written notes of what your teachers say. Here are the three stages of notetaking and what you should do during each stage. Get ready to take notes (before class) • Review your notes from the previous（之前的）class before you come to class. This will help you r___1___ what you have learned before and get you ready for new information. • Complete the assigned（布置的）reading tasks before class. You’re e___2___ to do this for further understanding. • Bring your pens and pencils as well as your notebook. Take notes(during class) • Focus on what your teacher is saying. Listen for “signal statements” such as “The most important point is...” or “Remember that...”. Be s___3___ to write down what your teacher repeats or writes on the blackboard. • Write q___4___ so that you can include all the important information in your notes. Do this by using abbreviated（缩写的）words such as “med” for medicine. You may a___5___ use symbols such as “%”(for percent) and write short sentences. • Place a question mark next to the information you have written in your notes but about whose meaning you are not sure Rewrite your notes(after class) • Rewrite your notes to make them more detailed by c___6___ abbreviations into whole words, symbols into words, and shortened sentences into longer sentences. • Make your notes more a___7___ by referring to your textbook and reference sources. If necessary, ask your teacher or other students for help. • Check with other students so that you won’t leave out any important information. 4.（2023·嘉定·一模） Do you like to try something new? Do you always try hard when you meet with problems? Here are four reasons for young people to try hard. ® It helps us to do well. We often look at people who are successful and wish we could be like them. Perhaps we think these people do well because they have a special talent or are clever or rich or even just l____1____. Having money, fortune or talent is almost never the main or only reason that people do well. Trying hard is sometimes even more important than any of those. People who rely only on their talent and do not work hard r____2____ succeed. ® It helps us to try new things. Sometimes we can be a bit scared of trying new things. We are afraid we will l____3____ silly if we can’t do it properly. This can prevent us from giving new things a chance or pushing o____4____ forward in something we already do. If we make up our minds to try hard at the new activity and give it our best shot, we could discover that it’s something we are getting to loving doing. ® It teaches us how to solve problems. Trying hard is not something we have to do a____5____. We can always ask for help and if we have a big problem, the best thing is to ask a parent or a teacher. Of course, we can solve problems on our own if we try hard. Trying hard means putting an e____6____ in even if we don’t get things right the first time. But remember, we learn from our failures. We learn we can try doing it another way. ® It makes us feel proud. Trying hard gives us a feeling of achievement. When we try hard and we succeed, it makes us feel confident about our a____7____. It teaches us that we can get better at things. It helps us behave well because we learn that we are capable (有能力的) of achieving things. 5.（2023·杨浦·一模） For centuries, people have asked what makes us different from animals. We share almost 99 percent of our DNA with our closest relatives, chimpanzees, but have you ever w____1____ why they have never evolved [1] as fast as we have? The answer is our complex [2] brains. The earliest human brains from around 2 million years ago were only big enough to deal with simple signals, such as sight and smell. As we developed into Homo sapiens [3] 1.5 million years later, our brains grew three times bigger. This was to make space for new s____2____, like speech and problem-solving. However, recent research into animal intelligence has made some interesting discoveries, and scientists are starting to question the “f____3____” about our powerful intelligence. Animals don’t use language … except that several chimpanzees have already learned to use sign language, and some other animals have learned to communicate in meaningful ways. In the 1990s, Dr Pepperberg published her studies of working with Alex, a parrot that could remember and name over 50 different objects! Most importantly, Alex r____4____ makes mistakes. Animals aren’t a ___5__. of themselves … except that some chimpanzees, and a few dolphins and elephants, have all passed the “Mirror Test”. In a mirror test, a scientist puts some paint on an animal, and then puts the animal in front of a mirror and w____6____ its behaviour. When they see themselves in the mirror, these animals then check their own body for the paint. Animals can’t solve problems … except that some octopuses have the ability to c____7____ their movements and open containers with great force to get food out of them People who work in aquariums[4] have known this for years. And a study in 2014 made some important discoveries about some crows. It found that they could solve complex puzzles and use tools to get food. Word box [1] evolve v.进化 [2] complex adj.复杂的 [3] Homo sapiens智人 [4] aquarium n. 水族馆 6.（2024·宝山一模） In 2013, Diana Nyad became the first person to swim from Cuba(古巴) to Florida (美国弗罗里达州) without the help of a shark cage, at age 64. Diana was born in New York City but moved to Florida after her graduationfrom college. She began swimming at the age of 10 and showed t___1____ and love for the sport from an early stage. Under the coach of Jack Nelson, the former(昔日的) Olympic swimmer, she won a lot of long-distance swimming competitionsduring the 1960s and 1970s.Diana became well-known for setting a new r___2____ for swimming around the island of Manhattan (曼哈顿岛) in 1975 in a time of 7 hours and 57 minutes. At the age of 28, Diana tried to swim from Cuba to Florida for the first time, but was unsuccessful after high winds forced her to give up the journey.After experiencing v___3____ injuries and health problems, Diana felt the need for new challenges beyond the pool. At the age of 30, she became a journalist in broadcast. Diana loved her new job, but from the bottom of her heart, there still was an u___4____ goal. After 30 years of no swimming, Diana began training at age 60 with the goal of finishing what she started. In 2011, she failed the Cuba-to-Florida swim t___5____, first making it 29 hours and then 41 hours. The swim was too difficult and full of danger. During the long and tiring journey, Diana had met with terrible storm and deadly sea animals such as sharks and box jellyfish(箱形水母). But every time Diana failed, she was ready to fight back.In August 2012, after she had spent 60 hours in the water,a lightning storm and other problems stopped her for the fourth time. In 2013, 35 years after her first try, the 64-year-old Diana planned to swim from Cuba to Florida for a fifth time.After 52 hours 54 minutes and 18 seconds, Diana completed the historic swim with the help of a crew of doctors, scientists and navigators on September 2. She finally became the first person to a___6____ the close-to-impossible goal. In her book Find a Way, Diana sentus three messages: 1. We should never ever give up; 2. It’s never too old to chase your dreams; 3. The swim looks like an individual sport but a___7____it needsa team effort. 7.（2024·青浦·一模） ( Name : Dame Jane Morris Goodall Born : 3 April 1934 Known for : Being the first person to study chimpanzees ( 黑猩猩 ) in the wild Important discoveries : Found that chimpanzees have emotions, use tools and eat meat ) (N: National Geographic Kids Magazine J: Jane Goodall) N:Hi Jane, when did you first know you wanted to work with animals? J: I was ten when I decided I wanted to go to Africa and live with wild animals and writebooks about them. That’s about 70 years ago now, and at that time then girls in England didn’t have those opportunities (机会). So everybody laughed at me and said, “Jane, d 1 about something you can achieve.” But my mother said, “If you really want something, you’re going to have to work hard and never give up!” N: Great a 2 ! What’s been unusual about the work you’ve done? J: I studied animals in a different way. While I was in Tanzania in the 1960s, other scientists told me I’d done my whole study of chimpanzees w 3 . They explained that I shouldn’t have given the chimpanzees names and that they should have been numbered. I was told I couldn’t talk about their personalities, minds or emotions because they thought only humans had those things. But luckily, I’d learned from my dog as a child that what they said was not t 4 at all. N: It sounds like having a childhood pet really helped you in your studies! What are you most p 5 of? J: Helping people to understand that humans are part of the animal kingdom, not separate from it. When I started out, nobody else was studying chimpanzees in the wild, so I was able to show how their behaviour is like o 6 – kissing, hugging, holding hands, patting one another, etc. N: What t 7 would you give to NG Kids readers who want to have a wild career like yours? J:  You’ve got to really, really want it! You could go to university and go straight into research, but there are also lots of chances for volunteering or for working at zoos. Keep your ears open for opportunities. N: Thanks for the chat, Jane! 8.（2024·宝山·一模） The Value of Timekeeping Are you often late for things? Do you wish you could be more on time? Lots of people find it difficult to be on time. As the new school year starts, it’s good to brush up on timekeeping skills. Being punctual means being able to arrive somewhere, complete a task or meet someone at an agreed time. Examples i 1 getting to your classroom before the lesson begins, handing in your homework on time and arriving at a friend’s house when you say you’ll be there. Being late can feel stressful, not only for yourself but for the people around you.It also makes it easy to f 2 something important. “When I’m late,I feel disorganized and panicky(恐慌的).” says a student called Freddie. “But when I’m on time,I’m more r 3 because I don’t have to run around looking for things.” Being on time also makes you feel more prepared. Finishing a project early gives you e 4 time to make improvements. Packing your bags the night before a match or performance allows you to feel calmer and more focused the next day.By being punctual, you’re telling yourself that your time matters, and you’re showing other people that you’re reliable and you r 5 time,too. Grace Pacie is an author who writes about lateness. She believes there are lots of reasons why people aren’t punctual. Some aren’t good at measuring time;others dislikebeing early and waiting around. Pacie believes you can learn to be more punctual by arranging to meet a friend on the way to school b 6 this will make you get out of the doorearlier. Or, if you don’t like waiting around,try arriving early but fill your time with something interesting like listening to music or reading a book. It’s not always easy to change timekeeping h 7 .Taking small steps towards becoming more punctual can help you feel calmer and more organized. 9.（2024·嘉定·一模） We know animals have emotions. They can feel fear. We also think they feel love, since they have strong relationships with each other. So are animal emotions s___1___ to our own? And do animals have a sense of humor? A Parrot’s Joke Sally’s parrot Bongo didn’t get along with her o____2___ parrot, Paco. In fact, Bongo clearly didn’t like Paco at all! One day, Sally cooked a chicken for dinner. She started to cut the chicken with a knife. “Oh, no! Paco!” Bongo said loudly and laughed. Sally laughed, too, and said,“That chicken is not Paco.”“Oh... no,” said Bongo. This time, she sounded d_____3____. Then the parrot laughed at her own joke. Yoga Dog Jean enjoys yoga and so does her dog Buffy. W____4____ Jean does yoga, Buffy carefully places her toys on Jean’s body. If a toy falls, Buffy runs to put it b_____5___. Does this behavior have any real purpose? “She thinks it’s funny!” says Jean. Animal Laughter Can dogs“laugh” ? Recent research shows that dogs can tell each other when they want to play. They make a special sound a kind of“laugh.” Psychologist (心理学家) Patricia recordedthe sound. Then she played it to dogs and s______6____ their behavior. “All the dogs seemed to like the laugh,” says Patricia. So do animals have a sense of humor? If laughter is a clue, then p_____7____the answer is “yes!”. 10.（2024·金山一模） One of the first science fiction books published was Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth, written in 1864. This popular book marked the b 1 of our strong interest in science fiction. Since then, there have been books, magazines, computer games, radio and TV shows and films. A science fiction story doesn’t just focus on the future; it focuses on the use of science in our future. Sometimes things that are written in science fiction stories a 2 become true. Star Trek first appeared on television in 1966. The crew of the spaceship spoke to each other on small mobile devices. A robot starred in the 1927 film, Metropolis. In the 1982 film, Blade Runner, video communication was s 3 as an exciting thing of the future. This is one of the reasons why science fiction is so popular. It lets us think about how our world might be in the future. It gives us ideas about how we might make things on the Earth better than they are n 4 . It gives us possible solutions to problems. A 5 reason is that it begins to answer some of the biggest questions in life, questions like Are we alone in the universe? What could we do better? Science fiction gives us the chance to think about these questions and c 6 possible answers. People also like to get away from their daily lives through science fiction. It is d 7 to imagine a better way of doing this than reading a fantastic story about a place you have never been to and creatures you cannot imagine. It does this by making us feel that anything is possible. Perhaps science fiction could also make us feel lucky to live here on the Earth. Perhaps it could even make us take better care of our planet. 11.（2024·闵行·一模） People want to know if pre-made meals are healthy enough for teenagers. Pre-made meals refer to half-finished or finished dishes that are already cooked or prepared, according to the China Cuisine Association (中国烹饪协会). There are several kinds of pre-made foods: ready-to-eat food, such as canned food or cooked food in packages, and ready-to-heat or ready-to-cook food. These foods usually r 1 heating or cooking first before being served. Many people think that pre-made foods are less healthy because they usually need to be kept in f 2 . “In fact, freezing itself does not cause nutrition (营养) loss,” Liu Junya, a 33-year-old professor in diet in Beijing said. “But nutrition loss does happen when we heat or fry the food. Vitamins B and C in meat and vegetables can be lost during that p 3 . By being heated or cooked twice or more, pre-made foods can be less nutritious than freshly prepared and cooked foods,” Liu said. “B 4 , many pre-made food companies put the taste of food ahead of nutrition,” said Liu. This leads to higher level of salt and sugar in the food and may cause serious health problems in the long term. Additives (添加剂) are a 5 problem related to pre-made foods. They are mainly used to improve the flavour of the food, as well as to keep it, increase its shelf life, and color it. In China, food industry has already had modern technology to keep pre-made foods without any additives. In this way some food can be kept for a longer time. But it’s n 6 that customers only buy pre-made foods from big and qualified (有资质的) food companies or supermarkets. It is hoped that laws on pre-made meals can ensure better nutrition and hygiene (卫生). “In this way we hope pre-made meals will be a 7 by more and will bring convenience instead of worries to people. But at present, no one can tell.”Liu said. ( 1 )原创精品资源学科网独家享有版权，侵权必究！ 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$