上海市各区2018届初三英语一模试卷分类汇编：首字母填空
One【2081虹口区】 C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（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）（14分）
Fifteen years ago, an incident that happened at Walt Disney touched me greatly. A guest checking out of our Polynesian Village resort（度假胜地）at Walt Disney was asked how she e____81____her visit. She told the front-desk clerk she had had a wonderful vacation, but was heartbroken about losing several rolls of Kodak color film she had not yet developed（冲洗）. At that moment she was particularly s____82____over the loss of the pictures she had taken at the show, as this was a memory she especially treasured.
In fact, there are no written rules covering lost photos in the park. L____83____,the clerk at the front desk understood Disney’s idea of loving our guests. She asked the woman to leave her a couple rolls of unused film, and then she p____84_____to take some photos for them. Two weeks later the guest received a packet at her home. In it were photos of all the actors of the show, personally signed by each performer. There were also pictures of the public procession（游行队伍）and fireworks in the park. These photos were taken by the clerk in her own time after work. I happened to know this s____85____because this guest wrote us a letter to express her thanks. Excellent s_____86_____does not come from policy（政策性的）handbooks. It comes from people who c____87_____ —— and from a culture that encourages and models that attitude.
Keys: 81. enjoyed 82. sad 83.Luckily 84. promised
85. story 86. service 87. care
Two【20181黄浦区】 C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（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）（14分）
When Crag was 12, he started a group that helped kids all over the world. The group is still going strong. In seventh grade he learned something that made him a____81____. It was about the life of a boy in the country of Pakistan. When the boy was four years old, he was sent to work in a factory. He worked 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. He could not go to school. He could not e____82____ play. He had no freedom at all.
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上海市各区2018届初三英语一模试卷分类汇编：首字母填空
Crag wanted to help those who didn’t have the same advantages as he and his friends. As a result, Crag and some friends started Free The Children. They decided that Free The Children should r____83____money to build schools. Crag hoped that learning would help poor kids live better.He also hoped they would learn the outside world.
Today, Crag’s charity has more than one million members in 45 countries. M____84___of them are kids. The money they have got has done many good things. It has helped build more than 500 schools around the world. They worked with Oprah Winfrey to pay for the school. It also pays for h____85___care in poor communities. With the money, many sick kids can go to hospital in time.
Crag has achieved a lot of s____86____. However, he still remembers his start in seventh grade. “We were laughed at by other kids, who said we couldn’t c____87____things,” he says. Still, Crag didn’t give up. Now he wants more kids to help. “Go to free the children.com. Bring it to your teachers,” he said. “As you gain more confidence, friends will join you. It just gets easier.”
Keys: 81. angry 82. even 83. raise 84. Most
85. Health 86. success 87. change
Three【20181浦东新区】 C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（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）（14分）
Every morning Sarah turns on her computer. First, she checks her email. Then, she v___81___ a social networking website to find out what her friends are doing. On this website, she reads news from her friends. For example, she may look at comments her friends made about movies, music, books and other friends. On her page, Sarah writes a short a___82___ about what she is doing. Like many young people, Sarah enjoys meeting and communicating with others on social networks. These websites let people see what their friends are doing and thinking.
Social networking sites become more and more popular every day, and they are popular all around the world. Why has the social networking s___83___ to different users so quickly? One reason is because people are social. We like to communicate with other people. We use cell phones, email, QQ and websites to learn what our friends are doing.
Social networking sites are interactive（互动）and personal. People can share photographs with each other. They can tell people what they are doing at any moment and keep in touch. They can
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上海市各区2018届初三英语一模试卷分类汇编：首字母填空
post a link to site with their favourite song or band. Many people post their videos on sites like YouTube. Other users can give their o___84___ on these photos and videos. This makes these websites become more popular.
Being able to write on the site is a___85___ reason. In the past, websites only had information for users to read. Today, the Internet is more interactive than it was in the past. Now anyone can have their
own website, blog, or page on sites like Facebook. Readers are now also writers and can add materials to the Web e___86___. People can express their own ideas, and they can put their own experience online.
Social networking sites have become widely used among all ages. D___87___ college, students spend almost two hours every day on Facebook. Teenagers and older people often use their sites as well. The Internet keeps changing, but one thing is clear: People enjoy using websites to share and communicate online.
Keys: 81. visits 82. article 83. spread 84. opinions
85. another 86. easily 87. During
Four【20181长宁区】 C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（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）（14分）
Children grow quickly, especially their feet. But many families, cannot a____81____new
shoes when a child needs them. As a result, about 300 million children around the world go barefoot. Those children risk picking up diseases and parasites（寄生虫）from the soil.
An American man has a s_____82_____for those barefoot kids – a shoe that grows with the
child. Kenton Lee is the creator of The Shoe That Grows. He explains how the shoe works and how it is able to last so long.
“It grows in three places: the front, the side and the back with the child. It can last up to five
years. The b____83____is compressed（压缩的）rubber like tire rubber. The top is just high-quality leather.”
The shoe comes in two sizes: small that fits children aged 4 to 9 and large for children aged 9
to 14. Lee says he got the idea for the shoe while working as a v____84____ in an orphanage in
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上海市各区2018届初三英语一模试卷分类汇编：首字母填空
Kenya. “… and there was a little girl in a white dress walking next to me. And I just remember looking down and seeing how small her shoes were. And she had to c____85____ open the front of her shoes to let her toes（脚趾）stick out. At that time I just remember thinking, wouldn’t it be nice if there were a pair of shoes that could grow with her feet?” However, Lee says it was i____86____ to turn his idea into a reality at that time. “Yet I kept writing down I should do this because of this or because of that. All these reasons why it really was important for me to try to make the shoes grow are to try to help them.” Finally, in 2009 Lee founded a non-profit organization called Because International. Together, they have sent over 50,000 pairs of shoes to 70 countries. Lee says a pair shoes gives a child self-worth and more chances to succeed b____87____much protection.
Keys: 81. afford 82. solution 83. bottom 84. volunteer 85. cut 86.impossible 87. besides
Five【20181徐汇区】 C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.(在短文的空格中填入适当的词， 使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给)：（ 14分）
Augie Dobson, a 9-year-old American boy is proud of his ability to speak Chinese. He has been studying the language for three year from Shanghai Community International School. Augie is one of a group of three and took part in a drama performance competition. It was organized to e_____81_____ overseas students to understand Chinese culture.
Their play is based on Tang Dynasty (618-907) poet He Zhizhang’s “ Hui Xiang Ou Shu,” L____82____, the play got the second prize at yesterday’s ceremony.
“ Hui Xiang Ou Shu” means writing something after returning home. It describes an old man who left his hometown at a young age but feels like a s ____83____ when he returns a couple of years later.
Mrs Sun, a Chinese teacher in school said she tries to teach her pupils to sing and dance to the poem. “Children are interested in singing poems rather than just reciting t____84____. Students at Shanghai Community International School now learn an ancient poem every day. “It’s difficult b ____85____ I ‘m trying to remember,” said Augie.
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上海市各区2018届初三英语一模试卷分类汇编：首字母填空
The first prize went to drama “Kong Cheng Ji,” performed by students at Dulwich College Shanghai . Kong Cheng Ji, tells of Zhuge liang during the Three Kingdoms period (220-280). He had no army to protect and guard the city but m_____86_____ to make the enemy’s leader Sima Yi believe that the city was full of traps and ambushes(埋伏). As a result, Sima gave up.
Li Zihao, 9, plays Sima in the drama. Li is a fan of chengyu, Chinese four-character idioms(四字成语).
“I’ve downloaded an app about telling stories with chengyu, and he loves it. I think chengyu is a very s____87____ and important parts of Chinese culture. Four words alone can mean a lot, and chengyu shows the great wisdom of old Chinese people.” said his mother.
KEYS: 81. encourage 82. Luckily 83. stranger 84.them
85. but 86. managed 87.special
Six【20181闵行区】 C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（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）（14分）
The exams were just over and the summer vacation just started. Now Keven was free like a bird. Suddenly the doorbell rang. It was his cousin, Max.‘Hiii!’ screamed Max,‘I have come to stay here for the holidays.’
The next days were a____81____ for Kevin. After breakfast
Kevin decided to do a painting. He took out all his art supplies and started painting beautiful scenery. When he nearly finished it, Max entered the room with a Cola bottle. He slipped on some water and spread Cola all over the painting. It was c____82____ destroyed. The next day was even worse. Max put Kevin’s best pair of shoes into the washing machine along with the clothes.
One day Kevin was going through the newspaper when some interesting news caught his a____83____. He read it aloud‘The world famous philatelist（集邮家）Dick Brown’s stamps were stolen last week in his town. Several other stamp robberies also have taken place and police suspect that all the robberies are l____84____.’
Kevin had a nice stamp collection and it was with his friend Allan. He decided to get his
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