天津中考英语-首字母填空

天津市初中毕业生学业考试试卷 英语八、综合填空（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词，使短文意思完整，没空限填一词。2016On July2, 1937, Amelia Earhart( an American pilot) and Fred Noonan left New Guinea for HowlandIsland in the Pacific. This was the longest and most dangerous part of their t 81around the world.Earhart had trouble soon after the plane took off. The weather was very bad, so she had tof82at 3,000 metres. Going this high, the plane used fuel quickly.After about 20 h83, Earhart and Noonan got close to Howland Island. The island was o84about 65 miles (英里) away, but the bright sun was shining in their faces so they couldn’t see it. NearHowland, a ship was w85for the plane. Earhart contacted the ship: “We don’t have enough fuel,”she said. The ship tried to stay in touch with her b 86got no answer. Finally, the ship called for help.People looked for Earhart and Noonan for days. However, they found nothing.What happened to Amelia Earhart? No one knows for sure. D 87the flight, she probably moved inthe wrong direction(方向) because the sun was bright and it was d88to see. So she got lost; soonafter, her plane ran out of fuel, and she died at sea. Another idea is that she survived(幸存) the planecrash(飞机失事), s89to a lonely island, and later died there. Still other think she survived the crashand secretly returned to the U.S. with a new identity(身份).Till now, none of these i 90has been proved. People are still wondering about them. (Noonan’s bodyhas never been found either.) No matter what happened, Earhart probably died as she wished. “When Igo,” she said, “I’d like best to go in my plane.”2015Many people say dolphins are very intelligent (聪颖...