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上海初三中考英语首字母填空专项练习
Firefighters or firemen play an
important role in our daily life. In some places,
firefighters use watchtowers to look for
smoke and fires, although they get a
fire report by telephone. A high tower is still
very u 67
for watching and guarding a
place. Fire fighters also make it a
place
for practice. They learn how to p
68 out fires from bur ning build in gs. They try
to c 69 up the outside of the tower as fast
as possible. They carry water hoses up
to the fire. They practise carry ing imagi nable
victims dow n f
70 high ladders.
There are reas ons that firefighters
are called for help. Maybe a buildi ng or a forest
is o 71 fire.
A train accide nt happe
ns and people are t 72 in side. Still, people n
eed to be rescued from floods or an earthquake.
When ever there is an emerge ncy
situati on, they can be see n f 73 there.
Being a fire fighter n eeds a lot of t
74 .In the first place, firefighters should know
how to educate the com mun ity
（社区）
by visit ing
schools, com munity cen tres and people in their
own homes to p 75 fire and accide nts from starti
ng. They
have to lear n how to deal
with differe nt dangerous situations. Above all,
it
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s necessary for
firefighters to exercise
everyida76o be
and strong.
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Man has a big
brain. He can think and s 72
Ianguages.
Scientists once thought that man isn
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t
the same as ani mals b 73
man can think and lear n. They know now that dogs,
mon keys and birds can lear n, too.
They are beginning to u 74 that men are
different from animals because they can speak.
Animals can
'
t
speak. They make much 75 when they are afraid, or
unhappy. Apes
（
猿
）
can learn some
things more
quickly than man. One or
two of them have learned a few words. But they can
not join words to make s 76
. They
cannot
think I 77 us because they have
no
Ianguage. Language is a wonderful
thing. Man has been a 78 to build a modern world
because he has Ian guage. Every
child
can speak his own Ian guage very w 79 when he is
four or five, b 80 no ani mals lear n to speak.
How do childre n lear n it? Scien tists
don
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tweal8/1 kno wappe ns
in side our body whe n
we speak. They
only know that man can speak because he has a
brain.
三、
Our
dog, Rex, used to sit outside our front gate and
bark. Every time he wan ted to come into the garde
n he would bark u
72 some one ope ned
the gate. As the n eighbours compla ined of the
noise, my husband s 73 weeks training him to
press his paw on the latch
（
门闩
）
to let himself
in. Rex soon became good at o 74 the gate.
H 75
, when I was going out
shopping last week, I n 76 him in the garden near
the gate.
! Since the n, he has
developed
This time he was bark ing so
that some one would let him o 77
ano
ther bad h 78 . As soon as he ope ns the gate from
the outside, he comes i 79 the garde n and waits
un til the gate
shuts. Then he sits and
barks un til some one lets him out. After this he
immediately lets himself in and begi ns bark ing a
80
and Rex got so
a 81 that he disappeared. Since the n,
we have not see n him.
四、
. Yesterday my husba nd removed the
gate
Elizabeth lived with her six
childre n in a small house. One win ter, there was
a big flood and quite a f 72 houses were
washed away, but Elizabeth
'
s houee was high escape it.
Elizabeth took in one of the families
which had lost everything. She shared her home
until the family could build a 74
house. Elizabeth
'
s friends could not un derwtan75 she
wan ted to give so much whe n she already had so
many childre
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