专题二、首字母填词
VII. (2017·贵州六盘水)首字母填空。根据短文的大意及首字母提示，写出各单词的完全形式，使短文意思完整。(共5小题，每小题2分，共10分)
Pandas are now a symbol of China. Many people around the world l 81 pandas, too. Scientists say there are now fewer than 2,000 pandas living in the forests. Another 300 or so live in zoos or research centers in China and other countries. Pandas do not have many babies, maybe only one every two years. The babies often d 82 from illnesses and do not live very long. Adult pandas s 83 more than 12 hours a day eating about 10 kilos of bamboo. Many years a 84 , there were a lot more bamboo forests and pandas in China, but then humans started to c 85 down these forests. As the forests get smaller and other human activities cause more problems, pandas cannot find enough to eat and they are having fewer babies. Luckily, Chinese government is taking action to protect pandas.
题材：大熊猫 【主旨大意】
本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了目前大熊猫的数量、分布情况、繁衍情况、寿命、食物以及因人类的活动而造成熊猫难以生存的事实。文章最后说，很幸运，中国政府正在采用措施保护大熊猫。
81. love/like【解析】分析句子结构知，本句缺少谓语动词；句意：大熊猫现在是中国的符号，世界上很多人也喜欢大熊猫。再首字母提示知填love/like；
82. die【解析】分析句子结构知，本句缺少谓语动词；从do not live very long推知句意为：小熊猫经常因疾病死亡并不会活太长时间。再根据首字母提示知填die。
83. spend【解析】分析句子结构知，本句缺少谓语动词；根据语境理解句意：成年大熊猫每天要花费超过12个小时的时间吃10公斤竹子。再根据首字母提示知填spend。
84. ago【解析】分析句子结构知，many years与所填词构成时间短语作状语；句意：很多年前，中国有很多竹林。再根据首字母知填ago。
85. cut【解析】分析句子结构知，本空应填一动词不定式作started的宾语；根据前后分句理解分析：很多年前，中国有很多竹林和大熊猫，而现在森林日渐减少。由此推知，这里说的是人们开始砍伐这些森林而使得森林减少。cut down意为“砍伐”。故填cut。
(D)(2017·黑龙江齐齐哈尔)
Complete the passage according to the first letters or with the proper forms of the words given.
Recently, Chongqing Three Gorges University has (71)________ (hold) an activity named “Cell Phone Ninja” (手机忍者). They would like their students not(72) _______ (use) cell phones for 21 days. It is a challenge (挑战)(73) f_______ most students.
The activity started on April 12. (74) E_______of the students who volunteered to join in this activity got a bracelet (手环). If the students did not use their cell phones, there would be a photo on the screen of the bracelet to show that . If they used their cell phones, a different photo would (75) a_______ on the screen of the bracelet. After the last class of every day, the students sent these (76)_______ (photo) to the school’s public WeChat.
More than 800 students wished to join in this test, and 400 were chosen. After seven days, only 103 students were left. The test lasted for 21 days (77) b______ some scientists believe that 21 days is long enough to help form (形成）a habit.
According to the teachers in the university, the activity was not a competition, it depended
on students (78))______ (they) to make the (79 )_________ (decide). The teachers hoped their students could form better study habits through activities (80) 1________ this one. 题材：热点话题 【主旨大意】本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了重庆一所大学举办的“手机忍者”的一项活动，旨在通过活动引导大家合理使用手机，养成良好习惯。
71. held 【解析】考查动词时态。根据前面的助动词has可知构成现在完成时，用hold 的过去分词held。
72.to use 【解析】考查动词的非谓语形式。根据前面的would like 可知构成would like (not) to do sth. 填to use。
73.or (for) 【解析】考查介词。句意：它是为了大部分学生而进行的一项挑战。for强调 目的。
74. ach (Each) 【解析】考查代词。根据句子成分分析可知此处用代词，结合句意“志 愿参加这项活动的每一名学生可以得到一个手环”。each 每一个。
75.ppear(appear) 【解析】考查动词。根据前面的情态动词could可知后面接动词原形。 结合后面的在屏幕上，可知此处填“出现”appear。
76. photos 【解析】考查名词。根据前面these可知后面用photo的复数形式photos。 77.ecause (because) 【解析】考查连词。根据句子成分分析可知此处填连词。结合句意 可知测试持续21天是“因为”科学家认为21天足够长可以去形成一个好习惯。 78.themselves 【解析】考查反身代词。结合句意可知“依赖学生自身”，用反身代词 themselves。
79.decision/ decisions 【解析】考查名词。make a decision做决定。 80.ilk (like) 【解析】考查介词。结合句意可知“像这样的活动”，like作介词，“像…… 一样”。
五、(2017?江苏镇江)短文填空（共10小题：每小题1分，满分10分）
根据短文内容及所给首字母提示写出所缺单词，使短文意思完整，每空一词。
One day, when a boy named Ted returned from school in a hurry, her mother complained, “It is six o’clock, and your school c 46 at four-where have you been?”
“Oh, mom,” said Ted, “when we play ball games, we f 47 everything else. We don’t think of the time. Is supper ready?”
The boy’s mother believed him. Ted’s a 48 led her to think that he had been playing with his classmates. But he hadn’t been playing at all.
He had been “kept it” by the school librarian, because he had made the l 49 in a complete mess. He didn’t like to tell his mother about that. He wished her to think that he had been playing.
“What a s 50 it is for you to try to deceive (欺骗) your mother!” said something in Ted’s heart, as he q 51 sat down to his supper.
“I don’t care,” said the boy to h 52 , “I don’t care. I didn’t tell a lie-I didn’t say that I was playing.”
“But,” said the voice, “you used words which m 53 your mother think that you had been playing, and that was s 54 to what you had said so.”
“I didn’t tell a lie.” said Ted.
Did Ted tell a lie, or did he not? What do you think?
If we use words which can deceive others, we tell a lie, and Ted’s lie was a bad one, for it
sounded so like the t 55 . A lie that sounds true is the worst kind of lie. 题材：人物故事
【主旨大意】短文通过Ted和自己内心的对话，叙述了Ted对妈妈说谎后内心的挣扎。 46. closes 【解析】主语school提示指“在4点放学”，用动词一般现在时表示客观事实，主语school提示用第三人称单数形式。
47. forget【解析】 下文“我们没有想到时间”提示用动词forget符合句意“当我们打球时，我们忘记了其它的一切”。
48. answer【解析】 承接上文是“Ted的回答”，用名词answer作主语，符合句意“Ted的回答导致她认为他和其它同学一起玩了。”
49. library【解析】上文“他被学校的图书管理员‘扣留’了”提示用library“图书馆”，符合句意“因为他把学校图书馆搞得一团糟。”
50. shame【解析】 用名词shame表示“羞耻；耻辱”符合句意“对你来说，欺骗你的妈妈是多么令人羞耻！”
51. quietly/quickly 【解析】副词quietly或quickly修饰动词短语sit down，表示“安静或迅速地坐下”。 52. himself【解析】say to oneself 意为“自然自语”，主语the boy提示用himself。 53. made【解析】下文的动词原形think提示用省略动词不定式符号to的make，make sb. do sth.意为“让某人做某事”。
54. similar【解析】be similar to意为“和……相似、相近”，符合句意“和你说的相似”。 55. truth【解析】 根据下文A lie that sounds true is the worst kind of lie.“一个听起来像真的的谎言是最糟糕的谎言。”提示用定冠词the修饰名词truth，表示“真相；真实”。