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07-2023年上海市初三英语一模真题专项训练之首字母填空
Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入
适当的词，使内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给）（14分）
2023虹口一模
Group Buying in China
In recent years, group buying in China has gradually changed the consumer
behavior of many Chinese people. Group buying is also called community buying.
Several online buyers work together and purchase a product in bulk（大批量地）
for a much l____51____ price per person. The activity takes place mainly on social
media.
What are the advantages of group buying in China?
S____52____ the development of group buying is based on social networks, the
cost is cut down. What’s more, the supply chain（供应链） in the group buying
market in China is simple: there is no middleman and the price is more reasonable.
The group leader serves as a b____53____ between the group buying platform and
consumers.
How does group buying i____54____ Chinese people?
In the past, most people were not f____55____ with their neighbours, especially
in cities. However, group buying has brought them closer to each other. People began
to chat frequently to have a discussion about the quality and price of products. In this
way, they have developed a close relationship with others.
What is the future of China’s buying market?
As the number of group buying consumers are likely to continue r____56____ in
the following years, there may be some changes in the group buying industry. Perhaps
different platforms will enter the market. A____57____, it is difficult for a single
platform or brand（品牌） to cover the whole group buying market in Chinabecause consumers are always changing their likes.
2023普陀一模
Personal opinions
Elsie 16 I have my own personal style.
I’m not interested in images（形象） from the Internet or magazines. Super
stars all look the same these days. And a lot of girls of my age try to be like them. But
I don’t want to c____51____ them—I’m different and I try to find my own look. I
usually buy my clothes at charity shops, and I have my own ideas about make-up（化
妆） too. My friends say look great, but my dad doesn’t always agree.
Oscar 17 I have p____52____ to look good.
I’m not really interested in super stars, but I care about my appearance and want
to be fit. I have the habit of going to the sports center four times a week. And it’s a
healthy h____53____. In the sports center, I meet many friends. Almost everyone of
them works hard and looks great. I don’t want to fall behind. I never take pills, but I
sometimes have special drinks for building up my body. They aren’t bad for my
health. Is it a problem? I don’t think so. A lot of my friends are the same as me.
Bella 15 I p____54____ sports.
A lot of the girls at school talk about hairstyles and fashion all the time. They all
have favourite super stars and they try to go after them. But I find all that boring. I
like sport. I go swimming three times a week and I’m in the basketball and volleyball
teams at school. My close friends are s____55____ to me. They don’t worry about
their appearance. They just want to be fit and healthy.
Grace 17 I enjoy f____56____ with friends.
I wear very casual clothes—just a T-shirt with loose pants or a shirt with jeans
when I’m a____57____. I don’t wear make-up. But when I’m with my friends, we
sometimes dress ourselves in nice clothes and change our hairstyles. We wear make-
up, too. We sometimes imitate（模仿） stars from the Internet, but that isn’t a
problem for us. We just feel happy. What’s wrong with that?2023杨浦一模
For centuries, people have asked what makes us different from animals. We share
almost 99 percent of our DNA with our closest relatives, chimpanzees, but have
you ever w____67____ why they have never evolved [1] as fast as we have? The
answer is our complex [2] brains. The earliest human brains from around 2 million
years ago were only big enough to deal with simple signals, such as sight and
smell. As we developed into Homo sapiens [3] 1.5 million years later, our brains
grew three times bigger. This was to make space for new s____68____, like speech
and problem-solving. However, recent research into animal intelligence has made
some interesting discoveries, and scientists are starting to question the
“f____69____” about our powerful intelligence.
Animals don’t use
language Animals aren’t a Animals can’t solve
___71___. of themselves problems
… except that several
chimpanzees have … except that some … except that some
already learned to use chimpanzees, and a few octopuses have the ability
sign language, and some dolphins and elephants, to c____73____ their
other animals have have all passed the movements and open
learned to communicate “Mirror Test”. In a mirror containers with great
in meaningful ways. In test, a scientist puts some force to get food out of
the 1990s, Dr Pepperberg paint on an animal, and them. People who work in
published her studies of then puts the animal in aquariums[4] have known
working with Alex, a front of a mirror and this for years. And a study
parrot that could w____72____ its in 2014 made some
remember and name over behaviour. When they see important discoveries
50 different objects! Most themselves in the mirror, about some crows. It
importantly, Alex these animals then check found that they could
r____70____ makes their own body for the solve complex puzzles
mistakes. paint. and use tools to get food.Word box
[1] evolve v.进化 [2] complex adj.复杂的 [3] Homo sapiens 智人 [4]
aquarium n. 水族馆
2023松江一模
Most of us have told a lie at one time or another. Some lies are harmful while
others are mostly h____51____. Some lies may be created to protect other people. But
no matter what kind of lie you tell, it takes a surprising amount of brainpower.
Here’s an example. Imagine you’re l____52____ for class and the teacher asks
why and you decide to lie. You now have to either come up with a story on the spot or
remember the story you made up as you were rushing to class.
So you say, “I stopped by the library and b____53____ a book.”
Your teacher asks, “The book I assigned（布置） last week?”
Immediately and quickly, you must decide how to r____54____ . If you say yes,
the teacher might ask to see the book. Or she might expect you to read it in class. You
have to imagine these possibilities. So you might say, “No. It was a different book.”
Now you have to be ready with another title in case（万一） the teacher asks which
book you checked out. And you have to make sure it’s a book the school library
a____55____ owns.
You have lied with only two sentences, but you’ve been A. trying to make up a
story; B. thinking about the various directions the conversation might take; and C.
working out what you need to say to k____56____ this lie from being detected. Youmight not be aware that you just gave your brain a ton of extra work.
Maybe it’s much better to tell the t____57____, “I was talking to some friends
outside the gym and lost track of the time.”
2023宝山一模
In Japan, travelling by train is very popular. When railways first spread, many
railway stations were managed by stationmasters （ 火 车 站 站 长 ） . These
stationmasters needed to make sure that everything went well at their own stations.
Many stations stopped employing（雇用） stationmasters a long time ago. However,
in recent years, a new type of stationmaster has a____51____ in Japan: the animal
stationmaster.
This all started when a station in Japan decided to employ a cat named Tama as
its stationmaster in order to improve business. The area around Kishi Station didn’t
get any v____52____. The trains were often empty. In 2004, the station was almost
shut down because there were few customers. The man who worked at Kishi Station
as an unofficial stationmaster was also the owner of a grocery store（杂货店） next
to the station. He took care of a street cat named Tama. In 2007, he decided to
i____53____ Tama to the manager of the railway line as the stationmaster. Before
that, Tama had already been a popular cat among local people. The manager noticed
Tama’s popularity and made her the new stationmaster of Kishi Station. Tama’s
bosses did not have to give her any money as salaries. I____54____, they gave her
free food. She needed to greet customers and wear a stationmaster’s hat and a
uniform. After all, a stationmaster must look s____55____ for the customers at all
times.
Soon, Tama attracted a lot of attention. More and more people would go all theway to the station to see Tama and take pictures with her. In a very short time, Tama
not only brought business to the station, but also brought a few billion yen（日元）
to the local e____56____. Tama seemed to enjoy being the centre of attention, and
continued to work at the station until she died in 2015 at the age of 16. It’s a great age
for a cat（about 80 in human years）. Her funeral（葬礼） was attended by many
of her fans, who s____57____ said goodbye to the super stationmaster for one last
time.
2023静安一模
Travel Alone
I am so excited. Also a little nervous! I am off on a trip on my own. Yes! Alone! I
am feeling so brave and can’t wait to get going. I am heading off to Europe to see
some cities I really want to visit. I am also going to have so much fun. It is great
b____56____ I can choose what I want to do in each city. I am going to travel by train
on the Euro-rail. I can buy one train ticket that l____57____ two weeks, and use it all
over Europe.
The train trip across Italy was fast and the v____58____ of the countryside were
beautiful. Now I am in Salzburg, Austria. The quiet hills of Austria are a great place to
visit. The movie The Sound of Music was filmed around this area. It is truly beautiful.
I enjoy the n____59____ scenery of the mountains and the Danube River from my
hotel window. There are also many castles and cathedrals to visit. Mozart, the famous
musician, was from here. I listened to some of his classical music. I could really
r____60____ myself when I sipped on a hot cup of coffee.
Amsterdam is a fun city, f____61____ of friendly locals and tourists. The train
ride to Amsterdam was a long one. It gave me time to write some postcards to send
back home. I spent the whole day exploring the art museums here. I took a boat ride
a____62____ the many water canals（运河） and saw people wearing their wooden
clogs（木屐）. I even got to taste some delicious Dutch cheese.2023崇明一模
“There’s nothing to discuss,” shouted my husband when I told him that Rose, our
17-year-old daughter, had asked whether she could go to Kavos, Greece, for a holiday
with her friends. “Of course she can’t. She’s too young to travel w____51____ the
presence of an adult. It’s completely out of the question.”
So how come I found myself standing, two weeks later, at Gatwick Airport?
Tearfully, I watched our eldest child d____52____ through the security checkpoint. In
four hours’ time, she would be in Kavos. It’s 2, 500 kilometers a____53____ from
England.
There comes a time when you have to let your baby go—for many parents, it’s
around the age of 17. We know that there is likely to be something wilder than
hanging around by the pool and building sandcastles, but the time has come to trust
that they’ll look after t____54____ .
But I still felt worried. Rose tried to put my mind at rest. She said she and her
friends would always look after one another and that it really, really was all going to
be okay.
After we had waved our last goodbye at the airport, I looked back. She was, to
my surprise, looking back at me, too. Teenagers want to cut free, but it’s a
f____55____ experience for them, too.
We made Rose promise to contact us as soon as she had arrived in Kavos and at
least once a day after that. Around 9 a. m. on the first morning, her first m____56____
came through. It was twelve hours since I had left her at Gatwick. And all I got was:
“I’m here.”
I wish there were safer places than these so-called teen destinations. But like all
the dangers that life can hold for them, at some stage, all you can do is warn them,
warn them again, warn them once more, and then hope that everything will be all
right.
My daughter got home s____57____ . So did her friends. But Rose is now talking
about a similar journey next year. And my alarm bells have already started ringing.2023奉贤一模
In classes, your teachers will talk about topics that you are studying. The
information they provide will be important for your tests. Therefore, you must be able
to take good written notes of what your teachers say. Here are the three stages of
notetaking and what you should do during each stage.
Get ready to take notes（before class）
• Review your notes from the previous（之前的）class before you come to class.
This will help you r___51___ what you have learned before and get you ready for
new information.
• Complete the assigned（布置的）reading tasks before class. You’re e___52___
to do this for further understanding.
• Bring your pens and pencils as well as your notebook.
Take notes（during class）
• Focus on what your teacher is saying. Listen for “signal statements”, such as
“The most important point is...” or “Remember that...”. Be s___53___ to write down
what your teacher repeats or writes on the blackboard.
• Write q___54___ so that you can include all the important information in your
notes. Do this by using abbreviated（缩写的）words such as “med” for medicine.
You may a___55___ use symbols such as “%”（for percent） and write short
sentences.
• Place a question mark next to the information you have written in your notes but
about whose meaning you are not sure.
Rewrite your notes（after class）
• Rewrite your notes to make them more detailed by c___56___ abbreviations
into whole words, symbols into words, and shortened sentences into longer sentences.
• Make your notes more a___57___ by referring to your textbook and reference
sources. If necessary, ask your teacher or other students for help.
• Check with other students so that you won’t leave out any importantinformation.
2023嘉定一模
Do you like to try something new? Do you always try hard when you meet with
problems? Here are four reasons for young people to try hard.
® It helps us to do well.
We often look at people who are successful and wish we could be like them.
Perhaps we think these people do well because they have a special talent or are clever
or rich or even just l____51____.
Having money, fortune or talent is almost never the main or only reason that
people do well. Trying hard is sometimes even more important than any of those.
People who rely only on their talent and do not work hard r____52____ succeed.
® It helps us to try new things.
Sometimes we can be a bit scared of trying new things. We are afraid we will
l____53____ silly if we can’t do it properly. This can prevent us from giving new
things a chance or pushing o____54____ forward in something we already do. If we
make up our minds to try hard at the new activity and give it our best shot, we could
discover that it’s something we are getting to loving doing.
® It teaches us how to solve problems.
Trying hard is not something we have to do a____55____. We can always ask for
help and if we have a big problem, the best thing is to ask a parent or a teacher. Of
course, we can solve problems on our own if we try hard.
Trying hard means putting an e____56____ in even if we don’t get things right
the first time. But remember, we learn from our failures. We learn we can try doing it
another way.
® It makes us feel proud.Trying hard gives us a feeling of achievement. When we try hard and we succeed,
it makes us feel confident about our a____57____. It teaches us that we can get better
at things. It helps us behave well because we learn that we are capable（有能力的）
of achieving things.
2023闵行一模
Apps to excite your inner artist
Staying at home without teachers and classmates, you probably will play with
your smart phone to get through the long days. But how can you unlock your phone’s
full potential? Start downloading some interesting and creative apps that will help you
k____51____ time and boredom. We have chosen three for you. Try them out and
have fun.
Easy Voice Changer
When you watch sci-fi movies, you may have noticed that people can change
their voices in phone calls and recordings. Do you want to have this magical
a____52____? Well, Easy Voice Changer will make your wish come true. It’s quite
easy to use. Users simply record their voices in the app. Then, it can change to sound
like different voices. These i____53____ voices of an alien, a robot, a monster, a kid,
a bee, a ghost and many more. If you want to have fun with your friends, why not
send them a freaky phone recording?
Meme（表情包） Generator FreeWe are the meme generation. Young people are not willing to send text. They
prefer using memes to make a point i____54____. But do you want meme special
memes? Make your own, with Meme Generator Free! The app has more than 1,000
high-quality meme templates（模板） to use. You can choose photo or snap（拍
照） one to insert onto the template. Your friends will appreciate your imagination
and thank you for giving them a r____55____ to laugh.
Psychedelic（迷幻的） Camera
Are you tired of following rules? Do you just want to make something
a____56____? You definitely need to check out Psychedelic Camera. The app lets you
choose pictures from your photo gallery and add filters（滤镜） to it. “You can
simply power up the camera and view your surroundings in chaotic（混乱） colors
and patterns — it’s delightful. So that it is hard for anyone to r____57____ you
anymore.” said Anmol Sachdeva on US technology website Beebom.
2023浦东一模
What is a staycation? The clue is in the name. Staycation comes from two words,
“stay” and “vacation,” which means staying at home and spending holidays withindriving distance of their home.
There are d___51___ activities to choose from. You could be attending an event
or visiting a local nature spot. There could be a museum or a theme park in your area.
Perhaps it’s a spa or a countryside walk. Or maybe you have decided not to l___52___
the house at all.
Here are some of the most common reasons why people prefer a staycation
nowadays.
Cost
Many people chose to take a staycation because they could not afford to travel
a___53___. People only tend to go on holidays when they have the money to do so. If
they are short of money, going to other countries becomes the last choice.
Ease of travel
Some people do not want the inconvenience of travelling. These people may
choose tourist activities close to home or to take a trip in an area that does not
r___54___ a lot of travelling to reach. This is especially popular with people who are
not able to travel far. For example, they may have young c___55___, have a disability
or have work close to home.
Taking a staycation is often thought to be easier than travelling further afield.
There is likely no language barrier（障碍）, no need for money exchange and
f___56___ cultural shocks between home and away.
Environment
A staycation can often be better for the environment because we are travelling
less. No flights and less transport means less CO2 emissions, which can only be a
good thing.
Community support
Many people are now recognizing the i___57___ of supporting your local
community. Instead of travelling to another location, people prefer to spend their
money locally, so that the local area can get the rewards of the tourist spend. It is a
good way to help boost the local economy.2023徐汇一模
Teens worldwide connect through video calls to have communication
emotionally.
Five years ago, Abhay and a group of his Grade 10 classmates at a secondary
school in Canada made their first video call to the Arctic（北极）. On the other end
of the l___67___ was Abhay’s, a 23-year-old brother, Sukhmeet, a volunteer teaching
assistant. His class was at a middle school there.
The conversation started with teen’s small talk-asking each other about TV
shows, music and school life. But as the teens grew more comfortable, the chat turned
s___68___ , such as families issues, stories of social problems. Some kids shared how
hopeless they felt, for they could do n___69___ about the danger or threat caused by
the climate change.
After both groups said their goodbyes, the brothers had an idea: since the
conversation was designed to broaden the students’ views about life outside their
h___70___, let’s keep it on. Students could continue to benefit from bridging
geographical and cultural differences. They called their organization Break The
Divide.
The students used social media to spread the word about their task to create eye-
opening conversations. Other schools began reaching out, and Break The Divide
helped them to start their own stations. They p___71___ different useful resources,
such as a list of guiding questions to get the conversation started, and technical tips
for video calls. Different stations are encouraged to connect with each other based on
big topics, such as mental health and climate change. There are now over two dozen
stations located across Canada as well as schools in other countries.
Last year, Abhay and Sukhmeet had their first employees, enabling them tod___72___ an app that will act as a social platform to connect Break The Divide
stations worldwide.
The brothers are happy to find that the organization can play a central role in how
youth solve the most d___73___ problems. “I hope that we can be part of creating a
world where we are all listening to each other for learning and for change, “says
Abhay.
2023长宁一模
Objects are powerful storytellers. They are collected and shown in museums to
help visitors understand the p___51___, make sense of the present, or get to know
people and places that may be n___52___ to them.
At the British Museum in England, 100 objects were chosen to tell important
stories about history and culture. One of the objects is the Rosetta Stone with some
a___53___ Egyptian written words on it. Another is a very different kind of object: a
modern credit card. The credit card helps tell the story of how people think about
m___54___ and shopping in today’s world.
An online project called “Moving People, Changing places,” uses objects owned
by individual families to tell stories about how they came and started to live in
England. An old suitcase covered with travel labels from around the world tells a
story about how one member of a family moved from place to place b___55___
finally settling in England.
Every person has objects that tell his or her own stories. A poster can tell a story
about the band or TV show you love. An old photo album can tell many stories about
your family history. A piece of jewelry or artwork which was p___56___ down
through the generations can tell about your family’s values, history, and relationships.
Next time you’re looking around your room or your house, take a moment to look
c___57___ at the objects that surround you. How do your objects help tell your
story?2023金山一模
Yuhang（余杭） in Hangzhou is known for making oil paper umbrellas for more
than 230 years.
In 2015, Liu Weixue gave up a well-paid job as a designer to learn from his
grandfather the a___51___ of making Yuhang oil paper umbrellas. “I began to love it
at a very young age, I wanted to bring it to life.” Liu said.“When it rains, someone
uses the umbrella---that’s what I want to see.”
There are more than 70 steps to make a Yuhang oil paper umbrella. Making
bamboo ribs（伞骨） and pasting（糊） papers are two i___52___ skills among
them. It takes no less than a week to make an umbrella. After learning the skills, Liu
opened a studio（工作坊） and worked with local umbrella-making masters（能
手）.
Liu i____53____ the umbrellas to win the hearts of young people. As the paper
broke e____54____, he used a thicker paper. In a test, his umbrellas were opened and
closed 1,000 times without breaking. He uses a l____55____ kind of bamboo to make
the ribs, so the umbrellas weigh less. As young people like hand-painted pictures, he
invites painters to draw patterns on the umbrella covers.
When online shopping became popular, Liu opened an online shop to sell
umbrellas. It now has more than 80,000 followers. S____56____, he doesn’t hurry. To
ensure quality, his studio makes only 1,000 umbrellas each year.
He hopes that he can enter local schools to teach students e____57____ he knows
on how to make this kind of umbrellas.
2023青浦一模When it comes to opera, you might think of Peking Opera. But have you ever
heard of Qinqiang Opera（秦腔）?
Qinqiang Opera is one of the e____51____ forms of opera in China. It started on
the ancient folk songs and dances of the people in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.
According to historical r____52____, the local opera dates all the way back to the Qin
Dynasty（221-206B.C.）.
Hou Yan is the president and Party secretary of Qinqiang Theater of the Ningxia
Performing Arts Group. She started learning Qinqiang Opera at 4.
Training in the basic skills of Qinqiang Opera is very c____53____. In 1985, Hou
studied at an art school where teachers were very strict with students. Leg stretching
（伸展）, waist bending（弯曲） and somersaults（翻筋斗） were just some of
Hou’s daily training routines. While training, each basic move would have to be held
accurately for half an hour and a single m____54____ could mean she had to start all
over again. Her hard work f____55____ paid off. Hou became a performer with a
troupe（剧团） in Yinchuan at 16. But in 1993, the sweeping trend（趋势） of pop
and Western music hit Qinqiang Opera hard. The troupe was closed and Hou had no
choice but to leave the opera stage.
In the past decades, however, China has made great efforts to develop its
traditional culture. Hou r____56____ to the stage in 2000 and put her heart into the
opera form.
Now, Hou’s team gives hundreds of performances every year. The average age of
Hou’s opera team is 30. In 2021, they staged about 150 school performances.
“As we become more c____57____ about our culture, more young people feel
proud of our traditional culture and take it as a fashionable trend. They also become
promoters（倡导者） of our own culture,” said Hou.
2023黄浦一模
Have you seen pieces of litter around where you live? Dropping litter doesn’t
look nice; it can harm the environment and it is actually a____51____ the law. Littermeans all sorts of things that have been dropped in a public space, including bottles,
cans, cigarette ends, crisp packets and sweet wrappers. Litter collects on streets and
paths, in bushes, parks, rivers and trees. It can take hundreds of years to decompose
（slowly break down and disappear） and can d____52____ the soil.
Wildlife s____53____ because of litter. Animals can get injured by sharp cans or
glass, or they might even accidentally eat bits of plastic. Litter is blown by the wind
and w____54____ into rivers and drains. Eventually these things end up in the sea,
where they can be a d____55____ to sea creatures.
If you’re doing a clean-up operation, one very useful thing is a litter picker. It has
a handle at one end and grabber at the other. Using a litter picker allows you to collect
rubbish easily and s____56____. You should always wear protective gloves when out
collecting rubbish. Wearing a bright-colour vest is also a good idea, but n____57____
go picking up litter near a busy road without an adult with you.
