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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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上海市各区2018届初三英语一模试卷分类汇编：首字母填空

stamp album back as he felt it would be much s____85____ with himself. But Kevin couldn’t go, so he decided to spend Max to get his album. Kevin gave Max the address of Allan’s and Max started. Max soon came back with the album and when Kevin checked it he found that it was not his album. It contained valuable stamps. Actually Max had gone to another house by mistake and he had knocked on the door but no one a____86____. He found the door unlocked, so he went in. He found an album which looked like Kevin’s and brought it back.

Kevin doubted that it might be the stolen album probably belonging to Dick Brown. Kevin made c____87____ with the police. A week later, Kevin and Max got reward for finding Dick Brown’s album.

‘I will never be angry at Max,’Kevin thought.

KEYS: 81. awful 82. completely 83. attention 84. liked

85. safer 86. answered 87. contact

Seven【20181奉贤区】 C.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)（共14分）

Have you ever eaten at a restaurant that seizes Western food? If so, do you remember what the menu looked like? Western restaurant menus are quite different from Chinese restaurant menus. But how are they different?

Most Western restaurant menus do not have as many p___81____

as Chinese ones do. In some fancy Western restaurants, the menus might not have any pictures at all.

But most Western menus show a list of ingredients for each dish. If you order a burger, the menu might tell you that the burger has cheese, ketchup and mustard (芥末).The menu can also tell you how the food is cooked---for example, w____82_____it is fried or steamed.

Western restaurants use many different methods to design their menus and make them more a_____83_____. In fact, there is a whole industry called “menu engineering”, according to the BBC. Menu engineers are experts at designing menus. Their menus can i____84____sales and

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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

influence customers’ thoughts.

A well-designed menu can encourage customers to eat certain dishes. It can e____85____make them believe that your restaurant’s food is of higher quality, thought they might haven’t eaten the food.

For example, using descriptive (描述性的)words l____86____“juicy” or “cheesy” can help dishes sell better. Instead of just writing “steak” in their menu, a restaurant might write “sizzling steak”. This makes the steak sound more delicious.

Also, it is k_____87_____that people pay the most attention to items placed at the top of a page. This is the best place for dishes that you want to promote.

As you can see, menus are not just simple lists of food!

KEYS: 81. pictures 82. whether 83. attractive 84.increase

85. easily 86. like 87. known

Eight【20181静安区】 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）

AMAZING RESCUE ---THANKS TO CELL PHONE

Two teenagers capsized（倾覆）in the ocean off the east coast of the U.S. and called the west Coast on a cell phone to ask for help.

Brother and sister Ray and Susan Rivera were on a sailing vacation near Newport, Rhode Island. But because of huge w_____81_____ of the sea, their boat capsized, and they were thrown into the ocean.

Ray, 17, and Susan, 16, spent 30 minutes trying to right the capsized boat, but without success. They couldn’t get back into the boat, and they couldn’t a____82____ the attention of passing ships. After they had been in the water for about 40 minutes, the situation was getting s_____83_____, and they felt very cold. Then Susan remembered her cell phone in its watertight container in her pocket, and reached for it.

But she didn’t think of dialing 911, the emergency number. I ____84____, she called their

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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

father, who was 2500 miles away in Scattle, Washington on a business trip. Susan explained:“I thought it would be q____85____ to call someone I knew and tell them our position. I dialed Dad’s number and he contacted the Coast Guard.”

About ten minutes later, after they had held on to the boat for nearly an hour, they heard a helicopter. Next, everything happened very fast, and Ray and Susan were picked up and carried to s____86____.

Afterward. The Coast Guard said that the teenagers were lucky to be alive and very, very lucky that the cell phone had worked.“Anyone in trouble should contact the Coast Guard d____87____ by calling 911.”he added.

Keys: 81. waves 82. attract 83. serious 84. Instead

85. quick 86. shore /seaside 87.directly

Nine【20181崇明区】 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）

If you are planning a trip to France in the future, you should be careful with the roads you take because some of them are very strange. Today we’re going to talk about the Passage du Gois（格

伊斯通道）.

The passage du Gois in France is natural. People didn’t notice the passage because it periodically（周期性的）flooded. It was f____81____ discovered by some local people in 1701. It connects the mainland France and a small island called Noirmoutier（努瓦尔穆捷

岛）. Now many people visit the passage every day. Some of them risk driving on it and others are just interested in watching it d____82____ under the water and come up from the water again. People can drive on the passage half an hour before and after low tide（潮汐）. The passage can also be reached only d____83____ low tide which lasts about one hour.

Driving on the passage can be dangerous. Some drivers are caught in the tide because they drive at the w____84____ time. Besides, as the passage is covered with water for most of the day, it is slippery all the time.

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