Daily Mail, the volcano in the Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, US, has been rising at a record rate since 2004. Its magma (岩浆) surface has gone u 87 3 inches (7.6 centimeters) per year over the last three years alone. This rise is one of the main s 88 that a volcano is about to erupt. However, scientists are not certain when the eruption will happen or what it will cause. Unlike what happens in the movie 2012, a volcano eruption would not destroy the whole world, b 89 it could cause huge damage to people living nearby. For example, the 2010 eruption of the Iceland Volcano caused more than 800 people to 1 90 their homes and many airports in European countries to shut down for a few days.
There are more than 1,500 active volcanoes in the world. A volcano is c 91 active if it has erupted at least once during the last 10, 000 years. In ancient times, more than 80 percent of the earth's surface was volcanic. Volcanic eruptions formed the sea floor and some mountains over many years. Gas from volcanoes formed the earth's atmosphere (大气) .
Volcanoes come from very hot liquid rock, that is magma, inside the earth. When magma comes upward and breaks through the earth's surface, it forms volcanoes.
The rising magma heats water, which leads to explosions of steam. This pushes rocks and ash high into the sky. T 92 different things erupt from a volcano; hot liquid rock, volcanic ash and gases.
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浦东新区初三英语第二学期学习能力诊断试卷
According to experts, the word Hutong originated from Mongolian language meaning \(井). In ancient times, people tended to gather and live around wells. So the original meaning of Hutong should be \the Yuan Dynasty. The old city was completely destroyed during the war. First, they had to find a center, and then built a r___87___ square city. At that time, there was a clear definition for “Avenue, Street and Hutong”. A 37-metre-wide road was called an avenue, an 18-metre-wide one was called a street, and a 9-metre-wide lane was called a Hutong. Most of today's Hutong were formed during the Ming and Qing Dynasties that followed. Nobody knows e___88__ how many Hutongs there are in nowadays Beijing. But if we connected all the Hutongs together, their total l___89___ would even be longer than the famous Great wall, which is about 4000 miles. Today you can find v___90___ Hutongs with different shapes, lengths or directions. The shortest one is only 40 centimeters wide. And some Hutongs have more than 20 turns.
As we walk t___91___ the Hutongs, you may find most of them look almost the same with gray-colored walls and bricks. Actually inside those walls are the courtyard houses, where people
live. In Chinese we call them \and \each side facing into the center, is called a Siheyuan. When they were first built, usually one Siheyuan was o___92___ by only one family, but nowadays, with the growth of the population, most Siheyuans are shared by 4 to 10 families.
86. appeared 87. regular 88. exactly 89. length 90. various 91. through/toward( s) /to 92. owned
普陀区初三英语第二学期学习能力诊断试卷
Wendy Martin is an ordinary university student who used to love surfing the Internet and chatting (聊天) with friends online. She often spent much of her free time talking with her family and making new friends online. Then something a 86 happened. It completely changed Wendy's feelings about the Internet.
One of Wendy's favourite things to do online was to visit the chat rooms on music websites. Everyone there loved chatting about recent concerts and what the famous s 87 were going to do next. It was here that Wendy first met Anne. The two women liked each other immediately. Soon they exchanged e-mail addresses and were communicating online every day.
Wendy e 88 talking to her new friend. They both liked the same music, the same clothes and the same films, but they also had the same worries about studying and the future. Anne had e-mailed her a picture of herself—— she even looked s 89 to Wendy. So, when Anne asked Wendy for her address and phone number, Wendy thought her new friend was a person she could trust. It was only when Wendy got a letter from the bank that she realized something was wrong. Anne was not who she said she was. She was not a university student, she was not young and she was not even a woman. 'Anne' was really a 45-year-old man called Tim Histanon. He p 90 to like the same things as Wendy. He had used Wendy's personal information to spend all the money in her bank account.
This situation is actually quite common, and affects (影响) thousands of people every year. Fortunately for Wendy, Tim Histanon was finally caught by the police, so Wendy got most of her money back. Many people, h 91 , have not been so lucky.
Everyone can learn from the mistakes that Wendy made. N 92 give out personal information while chatting online, and always make sure your user name is different from your real name. Nobody wants to make the same mistake as Wendy.
86. awful 87. singers 88. enjoyed 89. similar 90. pretended 91. however 92. Never
青浦区初三英语第二学期学习能力诊断试卷
India is a country rich in culture and tradition. And although India is changing, one thing remains the s (86) : the cow is sacred (神圣的). And men and women cover their heads and faces with cow urine (牛粪)
According to their tradition, the cow is not just a farm animal. These cows are like motherhood, and their milk feeds them. But it's not the milk these men and women are waiting for——it's the urine. As a precious g (87) from the cow, the urine is often placed in the house to protect their homeland. People think the urine can beautify their house and keep away b (88) luck. Men even put cow urine into their hair.
And this special form of worshipping (崇拜) has been around for centuries.
Surprisingly, cow urine is even used by people as a kind of m (89). Locals believe it can make sick people feel better. Believe it.
Some believers show their worshipping by making an offering of hair.
About 12,000 heads are shaved (剃头) every day. That means the city is always f (90) of hairless believers. Often waiting for 10 hours or more, believers f (91) enter the shaving area. On average the temple's 1,600 barbers shave over 15 heads an hour. The temple then sells piles of hair to local wigmakers (假发店). The money is used to help the area's poor and make sure the a (92) hair temple of India keeps going. Believe it.
86. same 87. gift 88. bad 89. medicine 90. full 91. finally 92. amazing
松江区初三英语第二学期学习能力诊断试卷
Have you ever noticed an advertisement which says \or your money back! From the first day your pronunciation will be excellent. Just send ...\so on? Of course, it n 86 happens quite like that. The only language that is easy to learn is the mother tongue. And think how much practice that gets! Before the Second World War people usually learned a foreign language in order to read the literature of the country. Now speaking the foreign language is w 87 most people want.
Every year millions of people start learning one. How do they do it? Some people try at home, with books and tapes; some u 88 radio or television programs; others go to evening classes. If they use the language only two or three times a week, learning it will t 89 a long time, like language learning at school. A few people try to learn a language f 90 by studying for six or more hours a day. It is clearly easier to learn the language in the country where it is s 9l . However, most people cannot afford this, and for many it is not necessary. They need the language in order to do their work b 92 . For example, scientists and doctors mainly
need to be able to read books and reports in the foreign language. Whether the language is learned quickly or slowly, it is hard work. Machines and good books will help, but they cannot do the students' work.
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徐汇区初三英语第二学期学习能力诊断试卷
Today, the largest remaining area of hutongs(胡同) in Beijing is north of Forbidden City. This is where many Chinese and foreign tourists come for a “hutong tour”. We asked several of these tourists to tell us about their o__________.
(Vicky Wang, Hong Kong) “It’s really s___87_____---we’re in the middle of one of the biggest cities in the world, but in these hutongs it feels as if we are in a village in the countryside. There are lots of trees everywhere, and all the buildings are only one or two storeys high. In a___88____, there aren’t many cars in the hutongs, so they are quite quiet--- very different from the streets in the centre of Hong Kong! It’s nice to walk around here and stop or have a drink in one of the little coffee shops or bars by the lakes.” (Ted, Canada) “When you visit the modern part of Beijing--- with the wide roads, tall buildings and colorful lights--- you can i_____89___ that you are almost anywhere in the world. It’s the old hutongs, temples and palaces that are really interesting and beautiful. It’s a s___90_____ that so little of the old city has been kept. I’ve taken lots of photos while I’ve been here. The next time I come back here, I don’t know how much of ‘old Beijing’ will be left.” (Yu,Guangzhou) “I don’t see what’s so interesting about these hutongs. The streets are too narrow--- I could h___91_____ drive my car down them. And most of the houses are old and dirty. China should have a better c___92____ cite that we can all proud of. Let’s get rid of these hutongs and change them into modern offices and flats. 86. opinions 87. strange/surprising 88. addition 89. imagine 90. shame 91. hardly 92. capital
杨浦区（崇明县）初三英语第二学期学习能力诊断试卷
Today some people call Amsterdam “The City of Bicycles” because it is a city which is flat and convenient for bicycles.
In the 1960s, a group of cycling fans had an idea. They believed that it would be better for everybody if only bicycles were a 86 in the city center. They hoped that this would help to save energy, reduce pollution and provide free transport. The group painted hundreds of bicycles white and placed them
in public places around Amsterdam for people to use. Anyone was able to use them for s 87 journeys, whether he was a local or a foreigner. Wherever someone finished a journey, they would l 88 the bicycle there for someone else to use. The problem was that it didn’t work–thieves took all the bicycles within weeks!
However, more than forty years later, the “white bicycle” is b 89 in town–this time with a computer chip (芯片) to r 90 its every move! To take a bicycle, you have to put a special card inside. The new “white bicycle” is not white any more but is an unusual design with bright colours. The bicycles are parked at special parking places and people who want to use them have to take them to a 91 place that has enough room.
There is already l 92 traffic in central Amsterdam, because both locals and tourists have been using the “white bicycles”. Thanks to the good ideas of lots of people, like the cycling fans in the 1960s, many people around the world have been enjoying city center streets without cars for many years.
86. allowed 87. short 88. leave 89. back 90. record 91. another/any 92. less/light
2012上海中考二模首字母填空 全（含答案）
