牛津教材初三英语中考任务型阅读和首字母填空专练

练习一

阅读短文（共15小题；第81 --- 85小题每小题2分，第86 --- 95小题每小题1分，满分20分）

A)根据短文内容，按要求答题。

The Canadian people are not all the same. There are many different groups. They came to Canada at different times. They came from different places. Many of them still live in different ways.

Long ago, only Native (土著的) Americans live in Canada. They arrived thousands of years ago. Today there are about fifty different American groups.

The Eskimos came after the Native Americans did. They have also been in Canada for a long, long time. Most Eskimos live in the north of Canada, where it is very cold.

          The European settlers started arriving 450 years ago. Most came from France. They are a large group in Canada today. They follow French customs or ways of doing things. They speak French.

    Later, most settlers came from England and Scotland. They speak English. Today more than half of all Canadians speak English.

     Canadians have also come from Germany and Italy. There are smaller groups from other places, too.

    You can see that different kinds of people are called Canadians. Many do not want to forget their own customs and languages. But they share a large country. They share a future in that country. They are all Canadians.

76. Who first came to live in Canada?

77. Where do most Eskimos live?

78. How long have the European settlers been in Canada?

79. What language do most Canadians speak today?

80. The Canadians look the same, don’t they?

B）根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

Yesterday I visited the Hong Shan Forest Zoo. I was s­­­­­­___81__ to find few people there. Zoos are very important places. They p___82 _ homes for many endangered animals. They also help to educate the public about caring f___83___ them. If we don’t s__84__ our zoos, they won’t have e__85 _ money to take care of so many fine animals. Therefore, people should go and visit the zoos m  86   often to learn about animals and help to protect them better.

H__87___, some people do think so. They think zoos are t___88___ places for animals to live. “I’ve visited a lot of zoos in my life, and I have never seen o__89__ I liked or one that was suitable for animals to live in.” Jenny said. ‘The animals are k___90 __ in small cages and can hardly move at all. What’s more, they are only given food once week. That’s terrible.”

练习二

A) 根据短文内容，在空格里填入恰当的词语。注意：每空一词。

Minoru Yamasaki was a well-known American architect (建筑师). He was born in 1912 in Seattle, Washington. His parents came from Japan. Minoru went to college to study architecture. Every summer he worked in a fish factory to help pay for college. Often he worked from four o'clock in the morning until midnight. He slept in a room with 100 other men. Later in life, Yamasaki remembered these times and was always good to his workers.

Yamasaki sometimes dreamed about his work. Once he woke up at three o’clock in the morning. He remembered a building that was in his dream. He got up and started to draw. Yamasaki used a new design for the buildings. These buildings are now the Century Plaza Hotel, and Tower in Los Angeles, California.

Yamasaki was different from other architects. His buildings give people a feeling of peace and happiness. Many of his designs have pools of water, flowers, and windows on the roof to let in light. He always designed buildings to please people. He wanted to give them a place away from the busy ways of modern life.

Yamasaki worked for several companies. But his success began when he started his own company. In 1956, he won the Architect’s First Honor Award for his design of an airport in

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