【初中英语首字母打卡群】第一期

栏目简介

针对初中生失分严重的首字母阅读题，专门为大家专门开设了这个首字母训练栏目，希望同学们能够在栏目中养成做首字母的好习惯，提升做题的正确率。

难度：初中-中考及以上，适合初中高年级学生以及阅读能力较好的学生

更新频率：每周周二及周四

【中考首字母训练营】

1首字母填空（限时：3分钟）

A.ItisnosecretthatPeppaPig,thepopularBBC1animatedtelevisionseries,hascapturedtheheartsofchildrenaroundtheworld,despitesomeparents’disapprovalonsocialmedia.Andtoday,

we’ve been given an even bigger insight into this, and the a____1____of trouble one child can cause trying to watch anepisode.

B.Lu, a mother from Jiading District of Shanghai, may have recently experienced one of her darkest hours. Her two-year-old son got h___2_____of her iPhone while she was out, but she didn’t have any worry about this s___3_____her phone was protected by its pass code. However, when she got her phone back, she was s_____4____by the information on the screen, which read ‘iPhone is disabled. Try again in 25,114,980minutes.’

C.Itturnedoutthatwhileshewasawayfromherphone,hersonwastryingtowatchPeppaPig. “I always play Peppa Pig for him whenever he cries,” says Lu. “It works every time. I left my phone at home thatday.The little one cried again, so my parents gave him the phone to c____5____him. By the time I got home, my son told me that he had been trying the combination for a wholeday.”

D.At first, Lu thought her phonew____6_____unlock in a few days, for it stated the time frame in minutes. So, you can imagine her feeling when she put the figure into her calculator and it revealed almost 48 years. “By the time I am able to use the phone again, I will be in my e _____7____.” Lu says desperately.

E.Tosolve the problem Lu h____8_____to the Apple Store, only to be told she could either restart heriPhoneorwaitfor48years.Bothoftheseoptionsseemunacceptableforthispoormom,

because all her data, pictures and address lists haven’t been backed up.

F.I guess we can all learn a few t___9_____from this if we want to keep our phones safe in future. Keep aneyeon your phone at all times and make sure you continually back up all the important files ahead.

1.a_________2.h_________3.s_________4.s_________5.c_________

6.w_________7.e_________8.h_________9.t_________

词汇积累（限时：2分钟）

1.despite+n.= in spiteof+n.尽管

2.the amountof…的数量+不可数

3.getholdof抓住

4.disabledadj.有残疾的

5.desperatelyadv.绝望地

6.backup备份

7.keep aneyeon留心

8.comfortv.安慰

9.hurry tosp.匆忙去往某地=gotosp.ina hurry=go to sp. hurriedly

10.unacceptableadj.无法接受的

11.capturev.吸引

12.insightn.深入的了解

解析及反思（限时：2分钟）

1.词性为名词，词意根据后文关键信息：trouble,cau1se，可知熊孩子制造的麻烦是非常大的，故答案为amount。

2.有get和of联想可知，该空考察固定搭配，get/catch holdof，解释为抓住。

3.词性为连词，词意根据上下文逻辑关系是因果，下文中for及because都有提示作用，故答案是since。

4.词性为形容词，词意提示手机已经停用，需要在25114980分钟后才能重新解锁，所以这个妈妈的感受是震惊的，故答案是shocked。

5.词性为动词，“IalwaysplayPeppaPigforhimwheneverhecries,”saysLu.可知这位家长经常用小猪佩奇来安慰孩子的，故答案是comfort。

6.从inafew days可知，时间是一般将来时，同时thought可知宾语从句主句过去式，所以从句时态需要改成过去的时态，故答案为would。

7.词性为名词，词意根据固定搭配，inmyeighties，在我八十几岁的时候。

8.词性为动词，Tosolve the problem;theAppleStore告诉了读者这位家长为了解决手机无法解锁会去做的事，去商店，表示情绪的焦急，使用hurry。固定搭配：hurryto sp.故答案为hurried。

9.词性为名词，从learnfrom以及后面一句可知，从这个故事我们可以吸取经验，得出忠告。故答案为tips。

In the United States, some people mark ballots( 选票) that bear the printed namesof candidates . Others pull levers in voting machines. Americans are proud of their long history of holding free elections, but they did not i______1______the process.

Free elections were held in Athens, Greece, 2400 years ago. Some Europeans took part in local free elections d______2______the Middle Ages. The secret ballot was first u______3_____in 1858 in Australia.

Today, voting is a new experience for many of the world’s peoples. Since World II, many w______4______never had a voice in their government now take part in free elections.

When India held its first national elections in 1951 and 1952, the process was so complicated that it took four months. F______5______people could read, so the ballots bore pictures that stood for the different parties. People who wanted to vote for Gandhi’s Congress party, for example, put an X under the picture of yoked oxen.

In our hemisphere , there are also voters who cannot read. The Dominican Republic held its first free national election in 1962 with rainbow- coloured ballots. The different colors i_____6_______the

parties for people who could not read the candidates’ names.

Today, computers are changing the way people vote. In 1974, Mexico set up a computerized voting system. In the future, people all over the world may be able to vote by touching computer screens. These screens could show candidates’ names, pictures, or party s_____7_______.

Any change that encourages people to vote helps government work. Orgeon lets people vote by mail. Texas has voting in convenient spots such as malls. As long as people want to have a voice in the government , they will try new ways of voting.

1.i_________2.d_________3.u_________4.w______5.F______6.i_________7.s________

【答案及解析】

1.invent美国人对他们举行自由选举的悠久历史感到自豪，但他们并没有发明这一过程。

2.during一些欧洲人在中世纪参加了当地的活动自由选举。

3.used无记名投票首次在1858在澳大利亚使用。

4.who定语从句，许多人的政府从来没有发言权，现在参加自由选举。

5.Few很少有人能读懂，所以选票上有代表不同党派的图片。

6.identified 因为不能读懂候选人姓名的人举办的聚会，不同的颜色标识了。

7.symbols.这些屏幕可以显示候选人的姓名、图片或政党标志。

【词汇聚焦】

1.candidates 报考者( candidate的名词复数 ).

2.free elections自由选举

3.ballots 投票表决( ballot的名词复数 )

4.Gandhi’s Congress party, 甘地国大党

【长难句解析】

The different colors identified theparties for people who could not read the candidates’ names.

解析：who引导的定语从句。

句意：不同的颜色标识了那些不能读懂候选人姓名的人。

【出题方向】

本文是相对来说是学生相对不太熟悉的话题。全文用词不难，文章篇幅较长。出题考察学生对联系上下文、固定搭配等多方面能力。对于阅读能力有一定的要求。

【文章大意】短文的作者与朋友一起谈论了学校的一些规章制度。在他们学校学生每天都要穿校服，但有些同学认为穿校服很难看，应该允许学生穿自己的衣服。老师则认为如果那样的话，学生们会更注重衣服而不是学习。他们还认为父母应该允许青少年在晚上集体学习，假期应该更长些，更长的假期会给学生时间去做志愿者之类的事情。

My friends and I got to talking about the rules that we have in school.

At our school, we have to w____1____uniforms every day. The problem is that all my classmates think the uniforms a___2____ugly. We think young people should look s ____3____and so we would like to wear our own clothes. Our teachers believe that if we did that, we would concentrate more on our clothes t____4___our studies. We disagree. We would feel more comfortable and that is good for s ___5_____. If we can’t do that, we should be allowed to design our own uniforms. That would be a good way to keep both teachers and students h ____6____. It’s also probably a good idea for parents to a____7_____teenagers to study in groups during the evening. I know we get noisy sometimes, b____8_____we can learn a lot from each other. We also think that vacations should be longer. At present they’re too short. Longer vacations would g ____9_____us time to do things like volunteering. Last summer I had an opportunity to volunteer at the local hospital, but I couldn’t because I had to go back to school. It would be a good experience for me because I want to b ____10____a doctor when I grow up.

1.w_________2.a_________3.s_________4.t_________5.s_________

6.h_________7.a_________8.b_________9.g_________10.b_________