九年级上册专题05上英语期中复习5416上海个专题短文首字母填空

专题05 短文首字母填空15篇

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）.

Life has gone mostly online for many people around the world. With more people going online during the pandemic, global internet traffic has become a big problem. Between January and late March, a quarter of big cities experienced an i___1___ in internet traffic. Video meetings, online classrooms and stay-at-home entertainment have become a lifeline to the outside world. The increasing use of internet is t___2___ the internet’s power. Many people cannot surf the internet as fast as usual. In March, phone networks in the UK experienced mass outages（断供）. People were not able to take calls.

In the US, main telecommunications（电信）companies like AT&T said traffic was u___3___ 21 percent month over month. Video streaming services like YouTube, Netflix and Facebook have cut their qualities and download speeds. This is being done to reduce network traffic jams. 

China has seen an internet traffic increase of around 50 percent c___4___ to the end of 2019. The country’s network speeds went down sharply in early February. However, they r___5___ to normal soon afterwards and have been working well. 

This is due to China’s work in building network infrastructure（基础设施）, e___6___ 5G technology. By the end of February, 164, 000 5G base stations had been built nationwide. This has given Chinese networks the power to withstand increased traffic. 

“If there were no such development in the internet network field, people could hardly enjoy such a colorful life at home. O____7____ working and teaching could never be realized so smoothly,” Wen Ku, an official with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

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While there has been no female president in America, Finland elected its third female prime minister(总理) last year. Even more impressive, 34-year-old Sanna Marin, who was sworn into office (宣誓就职) on December 10, 2019, is the youngest prime minister in Finland’s h____8____ and the youngest leader of a government in the world.

Ms. Marin was born in 1985, in Helsinki, the capital city of Finland. Born and raised in a low-income household, she is the o____9____ person in her family to graduate from both high school and university.

Her political career began in 2013 as the City Council head of Tampere. She currently lives with her partner and their two-year-old daughter there. The young leader’s ability to fearlessly deal with difficult issues made her extremely p____10____ with the public. Ms. Marin has been a member of Finland’s Parliament (议会) since 2015. Before the election, she s____11____ as the Minister of Transport and Communications.

The a____12____ of the new leader may actually be more important than her sex, at least in Finland, since the country has had long and strong female representation(代表) in government. Finland elected its first female president, Tarja Halonen, in 2000. The first female prime minister, Anneli, followed in 2003.

But about her win, the newly-elected Marin said, “I have not actually ever thought about how y____13____ I am or the fact that I am a woman. ” The woman leader is expected to focus her efforts on climate change, equality and social welfare. In an online post following her election, Ms. Marin said, “Finland will become b____14____. That’s what we’re working on. I want to build a society where every child can do anything they set their mind to, and every person can live and grow in dignity (尊严).”

There was once a king called Bruce. He needed to be both b__15__ and wise because the times in which he lived were wild and rude. Another king was at war with him and had led a great army to drive him out of the land. 

Battle after battle had been fought. Eight times Bruce had led his little army a__16__ his enemies and eight times his men had been beaten. At last he was forced to hide among the mountains. 

One rainy day, Bruce lay on the ground in a house. He was tired and unhappy. He was ready to give up all h__17__. It seemed to him that there was no use for him to try to do anything more.

When he was thinking, he saw a spider over his head making ready to weave her web. He watched her a__18__ she moved slowly with great care. Eight times she tried to weave the web from one side to another, and eight times failed. 

“Poor thing.” said Bruce, “you, too, know what it is to fail.” But the spider did not lose hope with the failure. With still more core, she made ready to try for the n__19__ time. Bruce almost forgot his own troubles as he watched her weaving the web. Would she fail again? No! The web was made successfully!

“I, too, will try again!” cried Bruce. He stood up and called his men together. He told them of his plans and sent them out with m__20__ to other soldiers. Soon there was a new army around him. Another battle was fought, his enemies were beaten and retreated to their own country. 

After that day, no one by the name of Bruce would ever hurt a spider. The lesson which the little animal had taught the king was never f__21__.

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Universal Beijing Resort Opens

北京环球度假区开园

THE UNIVERSAL BEIJING RESORT (UBR) officially opened its doors on September 20. A_____22_____ opening day was a rainy day, tourists from all around the country were still excited to  explore the park. After nearly 20 years, Chinese lovers of Universal Studios can finally e_____23_____  its theme park at home.

Universal Studios (环球影城) is the world’s third largest amusement park operator. The UBR is located 30 kilometers from the city’s center. It’s Universal’s fifth theme park worldwide and its third in Asia. It’s also the largest of its kind in the world. Beijing has never been short of tourist destinations. However, it’s the f_____24_____ time that a world-famous theme park has been opened in the capital city. The tickets a_____25_____ for opening day were sold out within just one minute. According to the operator, the resort could attract more than ten million visitors every year. They expect it to become a new landmark (地标) in Beijing.

The UBR covers an area of four square kilometers. It features 37 rides and 24 shows. All of them are based on famous Hollywood movies, i_____26_____ Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, and Minions. Of the seven themed lands, Kung Fu Panda Land of Awesomeness has been specially built for Chinese tourists. This made it one of the most popular a_____27_____ during the park’s trial run (试运营).

The UBR is more than just a magical land for movie fans. It’s a_____28_____ a paradise for food lovers. There are a total of 80 different restaurants and food stalls in the resort. They serve many kinds of food with different movie-related themes. “I’m so excited about this trip,” one tourist said on the opening day. “It has brought back all of my childhood memories. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to return again.”

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In 1997, Lottie Williams was walking through a park in Oklahoma, in the US, with her friends. Suddenly something tapped her on the shoulder and fell to the ground. She picked the object up. It was about as h____29____ as an empty soda can. Later scientists told her it was a piece of a Delta H rocket that had been used to launch a satellite.

Many countries around the world have sent satellites into space. We need satellites to send and r____30____ TV and radio signals, to report the weather and for many other things. But when they become old or they break down or we don’t need them anymore, we just leave them there. They become space junk.

Scientists think there are about 16,000 objects l____31____ than 10 centimeters wide flying around the Earth, and tens of millions of smaller objects too. They travel at around 7 kilometers a second. That’s fast! And it’s their speed that makes these pieces of space junk really dangerous. If one small piece of space junk hits something at high speed, it can do a lot of damage. L____32____, there haven’t been many collisions (撞). But in 2009, an old Russian satellite hit and d____33____ an American satellite—and that created 2,000 new pieces of space junk!

Pieces of space junk re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere every day. But Lottie Williams is the o____34____ person who has been hit. The piece that hit her was light, and the air in the atmosphere had slowed it down. Most space junk burns up and doesn’t reach the Earths s____35____. But in 2011, a metal ball 35 centimeters wide fell to Earth in Namibia, Africa. It made a hole in the ground 30 centimeters deep and over 3 meters wide. Lottie was lucky she wasn’t hit by that!

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