初三首字母填空练习.doc

初三首字母填空练习 1、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。 The continent（洲） Antarctica is the most southern area of land on the Earth and is mostly covered with ice. People have never wanted to l?67? ?there because of its coldest temperature. But now scientists from all over the w? 68? ?come to study the ice to learn more about the Earth’s history. ??? Some scientists live on Antarctica for part of the y? 69? . But they don’t usually stay there for more than six months because? 70? ?there are six months of light and six months of darkness. Antarctica usually has a good deal of f? 71? ?weather without any wind at all. The strong winds are usually only in some parts of it. It is also I 72? ?to learn that it isn’t very wet there. There is very l? 73? ?snow or rain. It snows on the ice in winter, but at other times Antarctica is d? 74? , just like the Sahara Desert. ??? In winter the sea around Antarctica freezes (结冰) for t? 75? ?of kilometres. But scientists tell us that the earth is getting w? 76? . So in the future, there may be less ice in the Antarctic sea. When that happens, our weather will never be the same again. 参考答案：67. live? 68. world? 69. year? 70. because ?71. fine? 72. interesting? 73. little?? 74. dry?? 75. thousands? 76. warmer2、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。 You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries. In fact, an English dictionary you u? 72?? ?today wasn’t made until the Qing Dynasty. Three men did most of the important e? 73? ?work on dictionary. They spent nearly all their l? 74? ?trying to collect words for their dictionary. For them, it was a wonderful journey. The largest dictionary in the world is Oxford English Dictionary. The i? 75? ?for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857. Twenty-two years later, Oxford University asked James Murray to b? 76? ?the editor of its new dictionary. ??? Murray had never been to college. At the age of fourteen, he left his village school in Scotland and taught h