2022-2023学年牛津上海版八年级英语下册期末选词填空练习（含答案）
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2023学年牛津上海版英语八年级第二学期期末选词填空练习
(一)
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. getting out of B. Since C. believe
D. through E. tallest F. While G. that
Here is the news from China Daily.
Aliens Land Spaceship on the Moon
Amateur astronomer David Bates was looking at the Moon __1__ his telescope last night when he got a big surprise. “I saw aliens on the Moon,” he said. “They were __2__ a spaceship.” __3__ no one else saw the aliens, not many people__4__ Mr Bates.
Pop Star Meets Biggest Fan
American singer Bobbie Sharon was in London yesterday. She went to a TV studio, where she sang a song from her new album. __5__ she was waiting for a taxi outside the studio, she met Sam Parrish, who was two metres tall. “I’m your biggest fan,” said Parrish. “Well, you’re my
__6__ fan,“ replied Sharon. “Could I possibly have your autograph (亲笔签名) on my arm ” asked Sam. “As you have asked me so nicely,” said Sharon, “I’d be glad to sign your arm.”
（二）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. looked like B. technology C. realized
D. received E. information F. slowly G. special
About five years ago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (大都会艺术博物馆) in the US took a small step that changed the way we experience with exhibits forever: it stopped asking visitors not to use their cell-phones. The museum made the decision because it __1__ that banning (禁止) cell-phones was useless because they were everywhere these days.
As museums __2__ accept the presence (存在) of cell-phones, they also start to think about ways that they can work with __3__. One way is to design apps that can provide visitors with additional __4__. The Brooklyn Museum, for example, has an app through which visitors can ask the staff questions about artworks in real time.
Virtual reality (虚拟现实), too, is becoming part of the experience of going to museums. The British Museum has experimented with virtual-reality headphones. These __5__ headphones make it possible for visitors to explore a Bronze Age at home, or see what the Parthenon __6__ thousands of years ago.
（三）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. attend B. penfriend C. different D. Making
E. easily F. what G. same
__1__ friends is an important part of one’s life. If you want to make friends, you must go outside, meet people and take part in different activities. You won’t make friends by staying at home alone.
To __2__ a club or a group is a good way to find someone with the __3__ hobby or interest as you.
Many people do not know __4__ to do or say when they meet some people for the first time. Just relax for a while and then you’ll feel comfortable enough to face new friends.
If you really find it hard to make friends at a party or a club, maybe looking for a __5__ in a magazine is a good choice. In this way, maybe you won’t feel nervous.
Meeting someone new does not mean that you will make friends with that person. Friendship does not come __6__, but at least you should try to achieve it.
（四）
Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once:
A. official B. traditional C. main D. never
E. other F. falls on G. importantly
Thanksgiving is celebrated in the US and Canada. In the US, it __1__ the fourth Thursday of November every year. Kids are happy because they get the day off school. They have time to stay with family and more __2__, enjoy a big dinner. Turkey is the most __3__ food of the dinner. Ever since Thanksgiving was made a(n) __4__ holiday in 1863 in the US, turkey has always been on the menu. This is why Thanksgiving is also called Turkey Day.
Many __5__ foods also come with the main dish. Pumpkin pie is a popular dessert for the day. People also eat sweet potatoes with brown sugar or maple syrup (枫糖浆). What a sweet taste!
However, one should __6__ forget to express what he or she is thankful for. Just as the proverb goes: Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
（五）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. forgot B. brought C. lucky D. picked
E. every F. stopped G. each
Mr Brown had an umbrella shop in a small town. People sometimes __1__ him broken umbrellas, and then he took them to a big shop in London. They were mended there.
One day Mr Brown went to London by train. He __2__ to take an umbrella with him that day. Sitting in front of him was a man with an umbrella standing beside the seat. When the train arrived in London, Mr Brown __3__ up the umbrella as he often did during his journey by train. Just as he was getting off, he was __4__ by the man. He said angrily, “That’s mine!” Mr Brown’s face turned red and he gave it back to the man at once.
When Mr Brown got to the big shop, the shopkeeper had got his six umbrellas ready. After a good look at __5__ of them, he said, “You’ve mended them very well.”
In the afternoon he got into the train again. The same man was in the same seat. He looked at Mr Brown and his six umbrellas, “You’ve had a __6__ day,” he said.
（六）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once
A. destination B. at the end of C. enough
D. what E. at least F. how G. even if
When we travel in a hurry, we lose the wonder and joy of the journey. We spend more time taking photos than actually experiencing a place. And __1__ all that rushing around, we return home more tired than when we left. That is why the age of Slow Travel is dawning.
Slow Travel believes, you should stay in one location for a longer period of time (__2__ a week), and dive more deeply into the local culture. You become a temporary resident (临时居民) instead of a tourist.
How can you make your next trip a slow trip
★ Stay in a local rental (租用的房屋).
★Stay in a place that is non-touristy. Better yet, go to your __3__ in the off-season (淡季).
★Stay out of cars. If you’re lucky __4__ to live in a place that supports walking (or biking), forsake (放弃) a rental car, and hoof (步行) around your neighbourhood.
★Get out among the locals. Make it a point to relax at a local cafe or bar, __5__ you’re travelling solo.
★Ask the locals. Instead of consulting guide books on __6__ to do and where to eat, ask the locals.
（七）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. fire B. except C． wrong D. dangerous
E. besides F. gently G． shocked
There was once an owl (猫头鹰) who lived in a forest with her baby owlet. Owl was kind to everyone __1__ the Snake who lived near her nest. Owl’s friends had told her that all snakes were evil and __2__. So, she was cruel to Snake and chased him away whenever he came near.
One night, Owl woke up to great panic(恐慌) in the forest. A blanket of smoke lay over the trees and all the animals were frightened. There was a __3__!
Together, the animals began to run. But as Owl was about to leave, she realized Owlet was stuck in a hole inside their tree. The hole was so small that Owl couldn’t reach him. Owl screamed at the top of her voice and began to cry.
“Please, Mr Robin, just a minute!” she called out to her friends. “Miss Mouse, wait! I need your help!”
But all her friends ignored her and left immediately. They were too __4__ to stay and help. Only Snake listened to Owl’s shouts and paused to wriggle (蠕动) inside the tree. In a second he reappeared, carrying Owlet __5__ in his mouth. Together, they got out of the forest to safety.
“Oh, thank you, Snake!” said Owl. “That was so kind. I’m sorry. I was __6__ to believe what my friends told me about you.” And from that day on, Owl never trusted others without knowing them first.
（八）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. post office B. At C. busy D. talking to
E. pay F. On G. still
Betty Kwan has an unusual new company called “It’s Done”. She errands (跑腿) for __1__ people. She’ll mail your letters at the __2__, pick up your medicine at the drugstore and even go shopping at a supermarket for you. Her customers __3__ her for each hour of her service.
Betty got the idea for “It’s Done” while she was working in an office. “I never had enough time for all my errands. __4__ my lunch time, I had to run to the bank, and the post office, and the dry cleaner’s. I was always rushing. I really wished someone could do all those things for me. When I mentioned this to my friends, they all said it sounded a great idea for a business. And that’s how it started.”
Betty is __5__ very busy. “Yesterday, I went to the post office three times and then to the airport. Today I have to buy presents for all the secretaries in a company. But it’s always interesting, and I really love __6__ my customers.”
（九）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. without B. Snowman C. find out D. that
E. pictures F. highest G. quickly
Is there anything strange high up in the world’s __1__ mountains If so, is it a big bear Is it a monkey Or is it a kind of man
No one knows. This mystery (谜) has puzzled the world for years.
In 1887, a mountain climber found large footprints in the snow. They looked like the footprints of a very large man. But men don’t walk __2__ shoes in the snow!
In 1906, another climber saw more than footprints. Far off, he saw a very large animal standing on two legs. As he watched, it ran very __3__.
Fifteen years later, newspapers had new stories about the “something”. A mountain climber said he had seen the “__4__” walk slowly across the snow, far below him. He said it looked like a very large man.
From then on, more and more people had stories to tell. But not until 1951 did a mountain climber bring back pictures of large footprints. The pictures showed clearly __5__ the Snowman walked on two legs. So it was not a bear or a monkey. Could it be an ape man The mystery grew! And the mystery keeps growing. Some day we may __6__ what it is that makes the large footprints.
（十）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once
A. at work B. when C. easier D. worked on
E. angrily F. but G. soup
All my great excuses
I started on my homework
__1__ my pen ran out of ink
My dog ate my homework
My computer was on the blink (出故障)
I jumped and dropped my homework
in the __2__ my mum was cooking
My brother flushed it down the toilet
__3__ I wasn’t looking
Tornadoes (龙卷风) blew my homework away
Volcanoes (火山) rocked our town
A pirate took my homework
and refused to give it back
I __4__ these excuses
so my teacher __5__ said
“I think you’ll find it’s __6__ to do the homework instead”
（十一）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once
A. as much as Ｂ. None C. aloud D. Neither
E. lively F. herself G. discussion
Today Mrs Cox has taught a poem by a well-known black writer in the United States. She wrote the poem on the blackboard and read it __1__. No sooner had she finished reading the poem, then students’ questions began pouring in. One boy said the poem was heart-breakingly sad. Another student, a girl, said she had read a book by the same writer, but she wasn’t able to enjoy it __2__ her mother did, and she didn’t know why. A third, a keen viewer of TV theatre, recognized a phrase in the poem which had been used as the title of a recent play.
As she answered the questions, Mrs Cox made sure that her students understood every line of the poem. She asked them to discuss if the poem contained any message. The discussion became so __3__ that no one wanted to stop when the bell rang.
Mrs Cox could feel good about what she had accomplished as a teacher. __4__ of her students looked bored. Every one of them seemed interested in the poem. Once they started to talk, they forgot about the time. She did not have to make them learn. She only had to answer their questions and to guide the __5__. This, she thought to __6__, is what teaching is all about!
（十二）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. watch B. as well as C. how D. sell
E. possible F. why G. popular
The Germans published the first modern-style newspaper in 1609. News-sheets existed before then, but these were not really newspapers.
Hundreds of years later, people are still buying newspapers. Shops and stalls all over the world __1__ millions of newspapers every day.
However, people do not get their news only from newspapers. They can listen to it, as they did long ago, and they can __2__ it.
Two inventions, radio and television, have made this __3__. These broadcast many news programs daily. So people now get news from their radios and TV sets, __4__ from papers.
However, newspapers remain __5__ because they give the news in more detail than either radio or TV. That is the main reason __6__ people continue to buy them.
（十三）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. without B. Snowman C. find out D. that
E. pictures F. highest G. quickly
Is there anything strange high up in the world’s __1__ mountains If so, is it a big bear Is it a monkey Or is it a kind of man
No one knows. This mystery (谜) has puzzled the world for years.
In 1887, a mountain climber found large footprints in the snow. They looked like the footprints of a very large man. But men don’t walk __2__ shoes in the snow!
In 1906, another climber saw more than footprints. Far off, he saw a very large animal standing on two legs. As he watched, it ran very __3__.
Fifteen years later, newspapers had new stories about the “something”. A mountain climber said he had seen the “__4__” walk slowly across the snow, far below him. He said it looked like a very large man.
From then on, more and more people had stories to tell. But not until 1951 did a mountain climber bring back pictures of large footprints. The pictures showed clearly __5__ the Snowman walked on two legs. So it was not a bear or a monkey. Could it be an ape man The mystery grew! And the mystery keeps growing. Some day we may __6__ what it is that makes the large footprints.
（十四）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once
A. sixth sense B. hundreds of C. waves D. dead E. barking F. seem G. event
Wild animals __1__ to have escaped the Indian Ocean tsunami (海啸), adding weight to ideas they possess a “__2__” for disasters, experts said on Thursday.
Sri Lanka wildlife officials have said the giant __3__ that killed over 24,000 people along the Indian Ocean island’s coast seemingly missed wild beasts, with no __4__ animals found.
“No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit. I think animals can sense disasters. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening,” H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of Sri Lanka’s Wildlife Department, said on Wednesday.
The waves washed floodwaters up to 3 km inland at Yala National Park in the southeast, Sri Lanka’s biggest wildlife reserve and home to __5__ wild elephants.
“There has been a lot of evidence about dogs __6__ or birds migrating before volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. But it has not been proven,” said Matthew van Lierop, an animal behaviour specialist at Johannesburg Zoo.
“There have been no specific studies because you can’t really test it in a lab or field setting,” he said. Other authorities agreed with this conclusion.
（十五）
Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once:
A. official B. traditional C. main D. never
E. other F. falls on G. importantly
Thanksgiving is celebrated in the US and Canada. In the US, it __1__ the fourth Thursday of November every year. Kids are happy because they get the day off school. They have time to stay with family and more __2__, enjoy a big dinner. Turkey is the most __3__ food of the dinner. Ever since Thanksgiving was made a(n) __4__ holiday in 1863 in the US, turkey has always been on the menu. This is why Thanksgiving is also called Turkey Day.
Many __5__ foods also come with the main dish. Pumpkin pie is a popular dessert for the day. People also eat sweet potatoes with brown sugar or maple syrup (枫糖浆). What a sweet taste!
However, one should __6_ forget to express what he or she is thankful for. Just as the proverb goes: Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
2023学年牛津上海版英语八年级第二学期期末选词填空练习
(一)
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. getting out of B. Since C. believe
D. through E. tallest F. While G. that
Here is the news from China Daily.
Aliens Land Spaceship on the Moon
Amateur astronomer David Bates was looking at the Moon __1__ his telescope last night when he got a big surprise. “I saw aliens on the Moon,” he said. “They were __2__ a spaceship.” __3__ no one else saw the aliens, not many people__4__ Mr Bates.
Pop Star Meets Biggest Fan
American singer Bobbie Sharon was in London yesterday. She went to a TV studio, where she sang a song from her new album. __5__ she was waiting for a taxi outside the studio, she met Sam Parrish, who was two metres tall. “I’m your biggest fan,” said Parrish. “Well, you’re my
__6__ fan,“ replied Sharon. “Could I possibly have your autograph (亲笔签名) on my arm ” asked Sam. “As you have asked me so nicely,” said Sharon, “I’d be glad to sign your arm.”
DABCFE
（二）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. looked like B. technology C. realized
D. received E. information F. slowly G. special
About five years ago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (大都会艺术博物馆) in the US took a small step that changed the way we experience with exhibits forever: it stopped asking visitors not to use their cell-phones. The museum made the decision because it __1__ that banning (禁止) cell-phones was useless because they were everywhere these days.
As museums __2__ accept the presence (存在) of cell-phones, they also start to think about ways that they can work with __3__. One way is to design apps that can provide visitors with additional __4__. The Brooklyn Museum, for example, has an app through which visitors can ask the staff questions about artworks in real time.
Virtual reality (虚拟现实), too, is becoming part of the experience of going to museums. The British Museum has experimented with virtual-reality headphones. These __5__ headphones make it possible for visitors to explore a Bronze Age at home, or see what the Parthenon __6__ thousands of years ago.
CFBEGA
（三）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. attend B. penfriend C. different D. Making
E. easily F. what G. same
__1__ friends is an important part of one’s life. If you want to make friends, you must go outside, meet people and take part in different activities. You won’t make friends by staying at home alone.
To __2__ a club or a group is a good way to find someone with the __3__ hobby or interest as you.
Many people do not know __4__ to do or say when they meet some people for the first time. Just relax for a while and then you’ll feel comfortable enough to face new friends.
If you really find it hard to make friends at a party or a club, maybe looking for a __5__ in a magazine is a good choice. In this way, maybe you won’t feel nervous.
Meeting someone new does not mean that you will make friends with that person. Friendship does not come __6__, but at least you should try to achieve it.
DAGFBE
（四）
Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once:
A. official B. traditional C. main D. never
E. other F. falls on G. importantly
Thanksgiving is celebrated in the US and Canada. In the US, it __1__ the fourth Thursday of November every year. Kids are happy because they get the day off school. They have time to stay with family and more __2__, enjoy a big dinner. Turkey is the most __3__ food of the dinner. Ever since Thanksgiving was made a(n) __4__ holiday in 1863 in the US, turkey has always been on the menu. This is why Thanksgiving is also called Turkey Day.
Many __5__ foods also come with the main dish. Pumpkin pie is a popular dessert for the day. People also eat sweet potatoes with brown sugar or maple syrup (枫糖浆). What a sweet taste!
However, one should __6__ forget to express what he or she is thankful for. Just as the proverb goes: Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
FGBAED
（五）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. forgot B. brought C. lucky D. picked
E. every F. stopped G. each
Mr Brown had an umbrella shop in a small town. People sometimes __1__ him broken umbrellas, and then he took them to a big shop in London. They were mended there.
One day Mr Brown went to London by train. He __2__ to take an umbrella with him that day. Sitting in front of him was a man with an umbrella standing beside the seat. When the train arrived in London, Mr Brown __3__ up the umbrella as he often did during his journey by train. Just as he was getting off, he was __4__ by the man. He said angrily, “That’s mine!” Mr Brown’s face turned red and he gave it back to the man at once.
When Mr Brown got to the big shop, the shopkeeper had got his six umbrellas ready. After a good look at __5__ of them, he said, “You’ve mended them very well.”
In the afternoon he got into the train again. The same man was in the same seat. He looked at Mr Brown and his six umbrellas, “You’ve had a __6__ day,” he said.
BADFGC
（六）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once
A. destination B. at the end of C. enough
D. what E. at least F. how G. even if
When we travel in a hurry, we lose the wonder and joy of the journey. We spend more time taking photos than actually experiencing a place. And __1__ all that rushing around, we return home more tired than when we left. That is why the age of Slow Travel is dawning.
Slow Travel believes, you should stay in one location for a longer period of time (__2__ a week), and dive more deeply into the local culture. You become a temporary resident (临时居民) instead of a tourist.
How can you make your next trip a slow trip
★ Stay in a local rental (租用的房屋).
★Stay in a place that is non-touristy. Better yet, go to your __3__ in the off-season (淡季).
★Stay out of cars. If you’re lucky __4__ to live in a place that supports walking (or biking), forsake (放弃) a rental car, and hoof (步行) around your neighbourhood.
★Get out among the locals. Make it a point to relax at a local cafe or bar, __5__ you’re travelling solo.
★Ask the locals. Instead of consulting guide books on __6__ to do and where to eat, ask the locals.
BEACGD
（七）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. fire B. except C． wrong D. dangerous
E. besides F. gently G． shocked
There was once an owl (猫头鹰) who lived in a forest with her baby owlet. Owl was kind to everyone __1__ the Snake who lived near her nest. Owl’s friends had told her that all snakes were evil and __2__. So, she was cruel to Snake and chased him away whenever he came near.
One night, Owl woke up to great panic(恐慌) in the forest. A blanket of smoke lay over the trees and all the animals were frightened. There was a __3__!
Together, the animals began to run. But as Owl was about to leave, she realized Owlet was stuck in a hole inside their tree. The hole was so small that Owl couldn’t reach him. Owl screamed at the top of her voice and began to cry.
“Please, Mr Robin, just a minute!” she called out to her friends. “Miss Mouse, wait! I need your help!”
But all her friends ignored her and left immediately. They were too __4__ to stay and help. Only Snake listened to Owl’s shouts and paused to wriggle (蠕动) inside the tree. In a second he reappeared, carrying Owlet __5__ in his mouth. Together, they got out of the forest to safety.
“Oh, thank you, Snake!” said Owl. “That was so kind. I’m sorry. I was __6__ to believe what my friends told me about you.” And from that day on, Owl never trusted others without knowing them first.
BDAGFC
（八）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. post office B. At C. busy D. talking to
E. pay F. On G. still
Betty Kwan has an unusual new company called “It’s Done”. She errands (跑腿) for __1__ people. She’ll mail your letters at the __2__, pick up your medicine at the drugstore and even go shopping at a supermarket for you. Her customers __3__ her for each hour of her service.
Betty got the idea for “It’s Done” while she was working in an office. “I never had enough time for all my errands. __4__ my lunch time, I had to run to the bank, and the post office, and the dry cleaner’s. I was always rushing. I really wished someone could do all those things for me. When I mentioned this to my friends, they all said it sounded a great idea for a business. And that’s how it started.”
Betty is __5__ very busy. “Yesterday, I went to the post office three times and then to the airport. Today I have to buy presents for all the secretaries in a company. But it’s always interesting, and I really love __6__ my customers.”
CAEBGD
（九）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. without B. Snowman C. find out D. that
E. pictures F. highest G. quickly
Is there anything strange high up in the world’s __1__ mountains If so, is it a big bear Is it a monkey Or is it a kind of man
No one knows. This mystery (谜) has puzzled the world for years.
In 1887, a mountain climber found large footprints in the snow. They looked like the footprints of a very large man. But men don’t walk __2__ shoes in the snow!
In 1906, another climber saw more than footprints. Far off, he saw a very large animal standing on two legs. As he watched, it ran very __3__.
Fifteen years later, newspapers had new stories about the “something”. A mountain climber said he had seen the “__4__” walk slowly across the snow, far below him. He said it looked like a very large man.
From then on, more and more people had stories to tell. But not until 1951 did a mountain climber bring back pictures of large footprints. The pictures showed clearly __5__ the Snowman walked on two legs. So it was not a bear or a monkey. Could it be an ape man The mystery grew! And the mystery keeps growing. Some day we may __6__ what it is that makes the large footprints.
FAGBDC
（十）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once
A. at work B. when C. easier D. worked on
E. angrily F. but G. soup
All my great excuses
I started on my homework
__1__ my pen ran out of ink
My dog ate my homework
My computer was on the blink (出故障)
I jumped and dropped my homework
in the __2__ my mum was cooking
My brother flushed it down the toilet
__3__ I wasn’t looking
Tornadoes (龙卷风) blew my homework away
Volcanoes (火山) rocked our town
A pirate took my homework
and refused to give it back
I __4__ these excuses
so my teacher __5__ said
“I think you’ll find it’s __6__ to do the homework instead”
FGBDEC
（十一）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once
A. as much as Ｂ. None C. aloud D. Neither
E. lively F. herself G. discussion
Today Mrs Cox has taught a poem by a well-known black writer in the United States. She wrote the poem on the blackboard and read it __1__. No sooner had she finished reading the poem, then students’ questions began pouring in. One boy said the poem was heart-breakingly sad. Another student, a girl, said she had read a book by the same writer, but she wasn’t able to enjoy it __2__ her mother did, and she didn’t know why. A third, a keen viewer of TV theatre, recognized a phrase in the poem which had been used as the title of a recent play.
As she answered the questions, Mrs Cox made sure that her students understood every line of the poem. She asked them to discuss if the poem contained any message. The discussion became so __3__ that no one wanted to stop when the bell rang.
Mrs Cox could feel good about what she had accomplished as a teacher. __4__ of her students looked bored. Every one of them seemed interested in the poem. Once they started to talk, they forgot about the time. She did not have to make them learn. She only had to answer their questions and to guide the __5__. This, she thought to __6__, is what teaching is all about!
CAEBGF
（十二）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. watch B. as well as C. how D. sell
E. possible F. why G. popular
The Germans published the first modern-style newspaper in 1609. News-sheets existed before then, but these were not really newspapers.
Hundreds of years later, people are still buying newspapers. Shops and stalls all over the world __1__ millions of newspapers every day.
However, people do not get their news only from newspapers. They can listen to it, as they did long ago, and they can __2__ it.
Two inventions, radio and television, have made this __3__. These broadcast many news programs daily. So people now get news from their radios and TV sets, __4__ from papers.
However, newspapers remain __5__ because they give the news in more detail than either radio or TV. That is the main reason __6__ people continue to buy them.
DAEBGF
（十三）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. without B. Snowman C. find out D. that
E. pictures F. highest G. quickly
Is there anything strange high up in the world’s __1__ mountains If so, is it a big bear Is it a monkey Or is it a kind of man
No one knows. This mystery (谜) has puzzled the world for years.
In 1887, a mountain climber found large footprints in the snow. They looked like the footprints of a very large man. But men don’t walk __2__ shoes in the snow!
In 1906, another climber saw more than footprints. Far off, he saw a very large animal standing on two legs. As he watched, it ran very __3__.
Fifteen years later, newspapers had new stories about the “something”. A mountain climber said he had seen the “__4__” walk slowly across the snow, far below him. He said it looked like a very large man.
From then on, more and more people had stories to tell. But not until 1951 did a mountain climber bring back pictures of large footprints. The pictures showed clearly __5__ the Snowman walked on two legs. So it was not a bear or a monkey. Could it be an ape man The mystery grew! And the mystery keeps growing. Some day we may __6__ what it is that makes the large footprints.
FAGBDC
（十四）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once
A. sixth sense B. hundreds of C. waves D. dead E. barking F. seem G. event
Wild animals __1__ to have escaped the Indian Ocean tsunami (海啸), adding weight to ideas they possess a “__2__” for disasters, experts said on Thursday.
Sri Lanka wildlife officials have said the giant __3__ that killed over 24,000 people along the Indian Ocean island’s coast seemingly missed wild beasts, with no __4__ animals found.
“No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit. I think animals can sense disasters. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening,” H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of Sri Lanka’s Wildlife Department, said on Wednesday.
The waves washed floodwaters up to 3 km inland at Yala National Park in the southeast, Sri Lanka’s biggest wildlife reserve and home to __5__ wild elephants.
“There has been a lot of evidence about dogs __6__ or birds migrating before volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. But it has not been proven,” said Matthew van Lierop, an animal behaviour specialist at Johannesburg Zoo.
“There have been no specific studies because you can’t really test it in a lab or field setting,” he said. Other authorities agreed with this conclusion.
FACDBE
（十五）
Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once:
A. official B. traditional C. main D. never
E. other F. falls on G. importantly
Thanksgiving is celebrated in the US and Canada. In the US, it __1__ the fourth Thursday of November every year. Kids are happy because they get the day off school. They have time to stay with family and more __2__, enjoy a big dinner. Turkey is the most __3__ food of the dinner. Ever since Thanksgiving was made a(n) __4__ holiday in 1863 in the US, turkey has always been on the menu. This is why Thanksgiving is also called Turkey Day.
Many __5__ foods also come with the main dish. Pumpkin pie is a popular dessert for the day. People also eat sweet potatoes with brown sugar or maple syrup (枫糖浆). What a sweet taste!
However, one should __6_ forget to express what he or she is thankful for. Just as the proverb goes: Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
FGBAED
(一)
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. getting out of B. Since C. believe
D. through E. tallest F. While G. that
Here is the news from China Daily.
Aliens Land Spaceship on the Moon
Amateur astronomer David Bates was looking at the Moon __1__ his telescope last night when he got a big surprise. “I saw aliens on the Moon,” he said. “They were __2__ a spaceship.” __3__ no one else saw the aliens, not many people__4__ Mr Bates.
Pop Star Meets Biggest Fan
American singer Bobbie Sharon was in London yesterday. She went to a TV studio, where she sang a song from her new album. __5__ she was waiting for a taxi outside the studio, she met Sam Parrish, who was two metres tall. “I’m your biggest fan,” said Parrish. “Well, you’re my
__6__ fan,“ replied Sharon. “Could I possibly have your autograph (亲笔签名) on my arm ” asked Sam. “As you have asked me so nicely,” said Sharon, “I’d be glad to sign your arm.”
（二）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. looked like B. technology C. realized
D. received E. information F. slowly G. special
About five years ago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (大都会艺术博物馆) in the US took a small step that changed the way we experience with exhibits forever: it stopped asking visitors not to use their cell-phones. The museum made the decision because it __1__ that banning (禁止) cell-phones was useless because they were everywhere these days.
As museums __2__ accept the presence (存在) of cell-phones, they also start to think about ways that they can work with __3__. One way is to design apps that can provide visitors with additional __4__. The Brooklyn Museum, for example, has an app through which visitors can ask the staff questions about artworks in real time.
Virtual reality (虚拟现实), too, is becoming part of the experience of going to museums. The British Museum has experimented with virtual-reality headphones. These __5__ headphones make it possible for visitors to explore a Bronze Age at home, or see what the Parthenon __6__ thousands of years ago.
（三）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. attend B. penfriend C. different D. Making
E. easily F. what G. same
__1__ friends is an important part of one’s life. If you want to make friends, you must go outside, meet people and take part in different activities. You won’t make friends by staying at home alone.
To __2__ a club or a group is a good way to find someone with the __3__ hobby or interest as you.
Many people do not know __4__ to do or say when they meet some people for the first time. Just relax for a while and then you’ll feel comfortable enough to face new friends.
If you really find it hard to make friends at a party or a club, maybe looking for a __5__ in a magazine is a good choice. In this way, maybe you won’t feel nervous.
Meeting someone new does not mean that you will make friends with that person. Friendship does not come __6__, but at least you should try to achieve it.
（四）
Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once:
A. official B. traditional C. main D. never
E. other F. falls on G. importantly
Thanksgiving is celebrated in the US and Canada. In the US, it __1__ the fourth Thursday of November every year. Kids are happy because they get the day off school. They have time to stay with family and more __2__, enjoy a big dinner. Turkey is the most __3__ food of the dinner. Ever since Thanksgiving was made a(n) __4__ holiday in 1863 in the US, turkey has always been on the menu. This is why Thanksgiving is also called Turkey Day.
Many __5__ foods also come with the main dish. Pumpkin pie is a popular dessert for the day. People also eat sweet potatoes with brown sugar or maple syrup (枫糖浆). What a sweet taste!
However, one should __6__ forget to express what he or she is thankful for. Just as the proverb goes: Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
（五）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. forgot B. brought C. lucky D. picked
E. every F. stopped G. each
Mr Brown had an umbrella shop in a small town. People sometimes __1__ him broken umbrellas, and then he took them to a big shop in London. They were mended there.
One day Mr Brown went to London by train. He __2__ to take an umbrella with him that day. Sitting in front of him was a man with an umbrella standing beside the seat. When the train arrived in London, Mr Brown __3__ up the umbrella as he often did during his journey by train. Just as he was getting off, he was __4__ by the man. He said angrily, “That’s mine!” Mr Brown’s face turned red and he gave it back to the man at once.
When Mr Brown got to the big shop, the shopkeeper had got his six umbrellas ready. After a good look at __5__ of them, he said, “You’ve mended them very well.”
In the afternoon he got into the train again. The same man was in the same seat. He looked at Mr Brown and his six umbrellas, “You’ve had a __6__ day,” he said.
（六）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once
A. destination B. at the end of C. enough
D. what E. at least F. how G. even if
When we travel in a hurry, we lose the wonder and joy of the journey. We spend more time taking photos than actually experiencing a place. And __1__ all that rushing around, we return home more tired than when we left. That is why the age of Slow Travel is dawning.
Slow Travel believes, you should stay in one location for a longer period of time (__2__ a week), and dive more deeply into the local culture. You become a temporary resident (临时居民) instead of a tourist.
How can you make your next trip a slow trip
★ Stay in a local rental (租用的房屋).
★Stay in a place that is non-touristy. Better yet, go to your __3__ in the off-season (淡季).
★Stay out of cars. If you’re lucky __4__ to live in a place that supports walking (or biking), forsake (放弃) a rental car, and hoof (步行) around your neighbourhood.
★Get out among the locals. Make it a point to relax at a local cafe or bar, __5__ you’re travelling solo.
★Ask the locals. Instead of consulting guide books on __6__ to do and where to eat, ask the locals.
（七）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. fire B. except C． wrong D. dangerous
E. besides F. gently G． shocked
There was once an owl (猫头鹰) who lived in a forest with her baby owlet. Owl was kind to everyone __1__ the Snake who lived near her nest. Owl’s friends had told her that all snakes were evil and __2__. So, she was cruel to Snake and chased him away whenever he came near.
One night, Owl woke up to great panic(恐慌) in the forest. A blanket of smoke lay over the trees and all the animals were frightened. There was a __3__!
Together, the animals began to run. But as Owl was about to leave, she realized Owlet was stuck in a hole inside their tree. The hole was so small that Owl couldn’t reach him. Owl screamed at the top of her voice and began to cry.
“Please, Mr Robin, just a minute!” she called out to her friends. “Miss Mouse, wait! I need your help!”
But all her friends ignored her and left immediately. They were too __4__ to stay and help. Only Snake listened to Owl’s shouts and paused to wriggle (蠕动) inside the tree. In a second he reappeared, carrying Owlet __5__ in his mouth. Together, they got out of the forest to safety.
“Oh, thank you, Snake!” said Owl. “That was so kind. I’m sorry. I was __6__ to believe what my friends told me about you.” And from that day on, Owl never trusted others without knowing them first.
（八）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. post office B. At C. busy D. talking to
E. pay F. On G. still
Betty Kwan has an unusual new company called “It’s Done”. She errands (跑腿) for __1__ people. She’ll mail your letters at the __2__, pick up your medicine at the drugstore and even go shopping at a supermarket for you. Her customers __3__ her for each hour of her service.
Betty got the idea for “It’s Done” while she was working in an office. “I never had enough time for all my errands. __4__ my lunch time, I had to run to the bank, and the post office, and the dry cleaner’s. I was always rushing. I really wished someone could do all those things for me. When I mentioned this to my friends, they all said it sounded a great idea for a business. And that’s how it started.”
Betty is __5__ very busy. “Yesterday, I went to the post office three times and then to the airport. Today I have to buy presents for all the secretaries in a company. But it’s always interesting, and I really love __6__ my customers.”
（九）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. without B. Snowman C. find out D. that
E. pictures F. highest G. quickly
Is there anything strange high up in the world’s __1__ mountains If so, is it a big bear Is it a monkey Or is it a kind of man
No one knows. This mystery (谜) has puzzled the world for years.
In 1887, a mountain climber found large footprints in the snow. They looked like the footprints of a very large man. But men don’t walk __2__ shoes in the snow!
In 1906, another climber saw more than footprints. Far off, he saw a very large animal standing on two legs. As he watched, it ran very __3__.
Fifteen years later, newspapers had new stories about the “something”. A mountain climber said he had seen the “__4__” walk slowly across the snow, far below him. He said it looked like a very large man.
From then on, more and more people had stories to tell. But not until 1951 did a mountain climber bring back pictures of large footprints. The pictures showed clearly __5__ the Snowman walked on two legs. So it was not a bear or a monkey. Could it be an ape man The mystery grew! And the mystery keeps growing. Some day we may __6__ what it is that makes the large footprints.
（十）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once
A. at work B. when C. easier D. worked on
E. angrily F. but G. soup
All my great excuses
I started on my homework
__1__ my pen ran out of ink
My dog ate my homework
My computer was on the blink (出故障)
I jumped and dropped my homework
in the __2__ my mum was cooking
My brother flushed it down the toilet
__3__ I wasn’t looking
Tornadoes (龙卷风) blew my homework away
Volcanoes (火山) rocked our town
A pirate took my homework
and refused to give it back
I __4__ these excuses
so my teacher __5__ said
“I think you’ll find it’s __6__ to do the homework instead”
（十一）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once
A. as much as Ｂ. None C. aloud D. Neither
E. lively F. herself G. discussion
Today Mrs Cox has taught a poem by a well-known black writer in the United States. She wrote the poem on the blackboard and read it __1__. No sooner had she finished reading the poem, then students’ questions began pouring in. One boy said the poem was heart-breakingly sad. Another student, a girl, said she had read a book by the same writer, but she wasn’t able to enjoy it __2__ her mother did, and she didn’t know why. A third, a keen viewer of TV theatre, recognized a phrase in the poem which had been used as the title of a recent play.
As she answered the questions, Mrs Cox made sure that her students understood every line of the poem. She asked them to discuss if the poem contained any message. The discussion became so __3__ that no one wanted to stop when the bell rang.
Mrs Cox could feel good about what she had accomplished as a teacher. __4__ of her students looked bored. Every one of them seemed interested in the poem. Once they started to talk, they forgot about the time. She did not have to make them learn. She only had to answer their questions and to guide the __5__. This, she thought to __6__, is what teaching is all about!
（十二）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. watch B. as well as C. how D. sell
E. possible F. why G. popular
The Germans published the first modern-style newspaper in 1609. News-sheets existed before then, but these were not really newspapers.
Hundreds of years later, people are still buying newspapers. Shops and stalls all over the world __1__ millions of newspapers every day.
However, people do not get their news only from newspapers. They can listen to it, as they did long ago, and they can __2__ it.
Two inventions, radio and television, have made this __3__. These broadcast many news programs daily. So people now get news from their radios and TV sets, __4__ from papers.
However, newspapers remain __5__ because they give the news in more detail than either radio or TV. That is the main reason __6__ people continue to buy them.
（十三）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. without B. Snowman C. find out D. that
E. pictures F. highest G. quickly
Is there anything strange high up in the world’s __1__ mountains If so, is it a big bear Is it a monkey Or is it a kind of man
No one knows. This mystery (谜) has puzzled the world for years.
In 1887, a mountain climber found large footprints in the snow. They looked like the footprints of a very large man. But men don’t walk __2__ shoes in the snow!
In 1906, another climber saw more than footprints. Far off, he saw a very large animal standing on two legs. As he watched, it ran very __3__.
Fifteen years later, newspapers had new stories about the “something”. A mountain climber said he had seen the “__4__” walk slowly across the snow, far below him. He said it looked like a very large man.
From then on, more and more people had stories to tell. But not until 1951 did a mountain climber bring back pictures of large footprints. The pictures showed clearly __5__ the Snowman walked on two legs. So it was not a bear or a monkey. Could it be an ape man The mystery grew! And the mystery keeps growing. Some day we may __6__ what it is that makes the large footprints.
（十四）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once
A. sixth sense B. hundreds of C. waves D. dead E. barking F. seem G. event
Wild animals __1__ to have escaped the Indian Ocean tsunami (海啸), adding weight to ideas they possess a “__2__” for disasters, experts said on Thursday.
Sri Lanka wildlife officials have said the giant __3__ that killed over 24,000 people along the Indian Ocean island’s coast seemingly missed wild beasts, with no __4__ animals found.
“No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit. I think animals can sense disasters. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening,” H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of Sri Lanka’s Wildlife Department, said on Wednesday.
The waves washed floodwaters up to 3 km inland at Yala National Park in the southeast, Sri Lanka’s biggest wildlife reserve and home to __5__ wild elephants.
“There has been a lot of evidence about dogs __6__ or birds migrating before volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. But it has not been proven,” said Matthew van Lierop, an animal behaviour specialist at Johannesburg Zoo.
“There have been no specific studies because you can’t really test it in a lab or field setting,” he said. Other authorities agreed with this conclusion.
（十五）
Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once:
A. official B. traditional C. main D. never
E. other F. falls on G. importantly
Thanksgiving is celebrated in the US and Canada. In the US, it __1__ the fourth Thursday of November every year. Kids are happy because they get the day off school. They have time to stay with family and more __2__, enjoy a big dinner. Turkey is the most __3__ food of the dinner. Ever since Thanksgiving was made a(n) __4__ holiday in 1863 in the US, turkey has always been on the menu. This is why Thanksgiving is also called Turkey Day.
Many __5__ foods also come with the main dish. Pumpkin pie is a popular dessert for the day. People also eat sweet potatoes with brown sugar or maple syrup (枫糖浆). What a sweet taste!
However, one should __6_ forget to express what he or she is thankful for. Just as the proverb goes: Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
2023学年牛津上海版英语八年级第二学期期末选词填空练习
(一)
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. getting out of B. Since C. believe
D. through E. tallest F. While G. that
Here is the news from China Daily.
Aliens Land Spaceship on the Moon
Amateur astronomer David Bates was looking at the Moon __1__ his telescope last night when he got a big surprise. “I saw aliens on the Moon,” he said. “They were __2__ a spaceship.” __3__ no one else saw the aliens, not many people__4__ Mr Bates.
Pop Star Meets Biggest Fan
American singer Bobbie Sharon was in London yesterday. She went to a TV studio, where she sang a song from her new album. __5__ she was waiting for a taxi outside the studio, she met Sam Parrish, who was two metres tall. “I’m your biggest fan,” said Parrish. “Well, you’re my
__6__ fan,“ replied Sharon. “Could I possibly have your autograph (亲笔签名) on my arm ” asked Sam. “As you have asked me so nicely,” said Sharon, “I’d be glad to sign your arm.”
DABCFE
（二）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. looked like B. technology C. realized
D. received E. information F. slowly G. special
About five years ago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (大都会艺术博物馆) in the US took a small step that changed the way we experience with exhibits forever: it stopped asking visitors not to use their cell-phones. The museum made the decision because it __1__ that banning (禁止) cell-phones was useless because they were everywhere these days.
As museums __2__ accept the presence (存在) of cell-phones, they also start to think about ways that they can work with __3__. One way is to design apps that can provide visitors with additional __4__. The Brooklyn Museum, for example, has an app through which visitors can ask the staff questions about artworks in real time.
Virtual reality (虚拟现实), too, is becoming part of the experience of going to museums. The British Museum has experimented with virtual-reality headphones. These __5__ headphones make it possible for visitors to explore a Bronze Age at home, or see what the Parthenon __6__ thousands of years ago.
CFBEGA
（三）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. attend B. penfriend C. different D. Making
E. easily F. what G. same
__1__ friends is an important part of one’s life. If you want to make friends, you must go outside, meet people and take part in different activities. You won’t make friends by staying at home alone.
To __2__ a club or a group is a good way to find someone with the __3__ hobby or interest as you.
Many people do not know __4__ to do or say when they meet some people for the first time. Just relax for a while and then you’ll feel comfortable enough to face new friends.
If you really find it hard to make friends at a party or a club, maybe looking for a __5__ in a magazine is a good choice. In this way, maybe you won’t feel nervous.
Meeting someone new does not mean that you will make friends with that person. Friendship does not come __6__, but at least you should try to achieve it.
DAGFBE
（四）
Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once:
A. official B. traditional C. main D. never
E. other F. falls on G. importantly
Thanksgiving is celebrated in the US and Canada. In the US, it __1__ the fourth Thursday of November every year. Kids are happy because they get the day off school. They have time to stay with family and more __2__, enjoy a big dinner. Turkey is the most __3__ food of the dinner. Ever since Thanksgiving was made a(n) __4__ holiday in 1863 in the US, turkey has always been on the menu. This is why Thanksgiving is also called Turkey Day.
Many __5__ foods also come with the main dish. Pumpkin pie is a popular dessert for the day. People also eat sweet potatoes with brown sugar or maple syrup (枫糖浆). What a sweet taste!
However, one should __6__ forget to express what he or she is thankful for. Just as the proverb goes: Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
FGBAED
（五）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. forgot B. brought C. lucky D. picked
E. every F. stopped G. each
Mr Brown had an umbrella shop in a small town. People sometimes __1__ him broken umbrellas, and then he took them to a big shop in London. They were mended there.
One day Mr Brown went to London by train. He __2__ to take an umbrella with him that day. Sitting in front of him was a man with an umbrella standing beside the seat. When the train arrived in London, Mr Brown __3__ up the umbrella as he often did during his journey by train. Just as he was getting off, he was __4__ by the man. He said angrily, “That’s mine!” Mr Brown’s face turned red and he gave it back to the man at once.
When Mr Brown got to the big shop, the shopkeeper had got his six umbrellas ready. After a good look at __5__ of them, he said, “You’ve mended them very well.”
In the afternoon he got into the train again. The same man was in the same seat. He looked at Mr Brown and his six umbrellas, “You’ve had a __6__ day,” he said.
BADFGC
（六）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once
A. destination B. at the end of C. enough
D. what E. at least F. how G. even if
When we travel in a hurry, we lose the wonder and joy of the journey. We spend more time taking photos than actually experiencing a place. And __1__ all that rushing around, we return home more tired than when we left. That is why the age of Slow Travel is dawning.
Slow Travel believes, you should stay in one location for a longer period of time (__2__ a week), and dive more deeply into the local culture. You become a temporary resident (临时居民) instead of a tourist.
How can you make your next trip a slow trip
★ Stay in a local rental (租用的房屋).
★Stay in a place that is non-touristy. Better yet, go to your __3__ in the off-season (淡季).
★Stay out of cars. If you’re lucky __4__ to live in a place that supports walking (or biking), forsake (放弃) a rental car, and hoof (步行) around your neighbourhood.
★Get out among the locals. Make it a point to relax at a local cafe or bar, __5__ you’re travelling solo.
★Ask the locals. Instead of consulting guide books on __6__ to do and where to eat, ask the locals.
BEACGD
（七）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. fire B. except C． wrong D. dangerous
E. besides F. gently G． shocked
There was once an owl (猫头鹰) who lived in a forest with her baby owlet. Owl was kind to everyone __1__ the Snake who lived near her nest. Owl’s friends had told her that all snakes were evil and __2__. So, she was cruel to Snake and chased him away whenever he came near.
One night, Owl woke up to great panic(恐慌) in the forest. A blanket of smoke lay over the trees and all the animals were frightened. There was a __3__!
Together, the animals began to run. But as Owl was about to leave, she realized Owlet was stuck in a hole inside their tree. The hole was so small that Owl couldn’t reach him. Owl screamed at the top of her voice and began to cry.
“Please, Mr Robin, just a minute!” she called out to her friends. “Miss Mouse, wait! I need your help!”
But all her friends ignored her and left immediately. They were too __4__ to stay and help. Only Snake listened to Owl’s shouts and paused to wriggle (蠕动) inside the tree. In a second he reappeared, carrying Owlet __5__ in his mouth. Together, they got out of the forest to safety.
“Oh, thank you, Snake!” said Owl. “That was so kind. I’m sorry. I was __6__ to believe what my friends told me about you.” And from that day on, Owl never trusted others without knowing them first.
BDAGFC
（八）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. post office B. At C. busy D. talking to
E. pay F. On G. still
Betty Kwan has an unusual new company called “It’s Done”. She errands (跑腿) for __1__ people. She’ll mail your letters at the __2__, pick up your medicine at the drugstore and even go shopping at a supermarket for you. Her customers __3__ her for each hour of her service.
Betty got the idea for “It’s Done” while she was working in an office. “I never had enough time for all my errands. __4__ my lunch time, I had to run to the bank, and the post office, and the dry cleaner’s. I was always rushing. I really wished someone could do all those things for me. When I mentioned this to my friends, they all said it sounded a great idea for a business. And that’s how it started.”
Betty is __5__ very busy. “Yesterday, I went to the post office three times and then to the airport. Today I have to buy presents for all the secretaries in a company. But it’s always interesting, and I really love __6__ my customers.”
CAEBGD
（九）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. without B. Snowman C. find out D. that
E. pictures F. highest G. quickly
Is there anything strange high up in the world’s __1__ mountains If so, is it a big bear Is it a monkey Or is it a kind of man
No one knows. This mystery (谜) has puzzled the world for years.
In 1887, a mountain climber found large footprints in the snow. They looked like the footprints of a very large man. But men don’t walk __2__ shoes in the snow!
In 1906, another climber saw more than footprints. Far off, he saw a very large animal standing on two legs. As he watched, it ran very __3__.
Fifteen years later, newspapers had new stories about the “something”. A mountain climber said he had seen the “__4__” walk slowly across the snow, far below him. He said it looked like a very large man.
From then on, more and more people had stories to tell. But not until 1951 did a mountain climber bring back pictures of large footprints. The pictures showed clearly __5__ the Snowman walked on two legs. So it was not a bear or a monkey. Could it be an ape man The mystery grew! And the mystery keeps growing. Some day we may __6__ what it is that makes the large footprints.
FAGBDC
（十）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once
A. at work B. when C. easier D. worked on
E. angrily F. but G. soup
All my great excuses
I started on my homework
__1__ my pen ran out of ink
My dog ate my homework
My computer was on the blink (出故障)
I jumped and dropped my homework
in the __2__ my mum was cooking
My brother flushed it down the toilet
__3__ I wasn’t looking
Tornadoes (龙卷风) blew my homework away
Volcanoes (火山) rocked our town
A pirate took my homework
and refused to give it back
I __4__ these excuses
so my teacher __5__ said
“I think you’ll find it’s __6__ to do the homework instead”
FGBDEC
（十一）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once
A. as much as Ｂ. None C. aloud D. Neither
E. lively F. herself G. discussion
Today Mrs Cox has taught a poem by a well-known black writer in the United States. She wrote the poem on the blackboard and read it __1__. No sooner had she finished reading the poem, then students’ questions began pouring in. One boy said the poem was heart-breakingly sad. Another student, a girl, said she had read a book by the same writer, but she wasn’t able to enjoy it __2__ her mother did, and she didn’t know why. A third, a keen viewer of TV theatre, recognized a phrase in the poem which had been used as the title of a recent play.
As she answered the questions, Mrs Cox made sure that her students understood every line of the poem. She asked them to discuss if the poem contained any message. The discussion became so __3__ that no one wanted to stop when the bell rang.
Mrs Cox could feel good about what she had accomplished as a teacher. __4__ of her students looked bored. Every one of them seemed interested in the poem. Once they started to talk, they forgot about the time. She did not have to make them learn. She only had to answer their questions and to guide the __5__. This, she thought to __6__, is what teaching is all about!
CAEBGF
（十二）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. watch B. as well as C. how D. sell
E. possible F. why G. popular
The Germans published the first modern-style newspaper in 1609. News-sheets existed before then, but these were not really newspapers.
Hundreds of years later, people are still buying newspapers. Shops and stalls all over the world __1__ millions of newspapers every day.
However, people do not get their news only from newspapers. They can listen to it, as they did long ago, and they can __2__ it.
Two inventions, radio and television, have made this __3__. These broadcast many news programs daily. So people now get news from their radios and TV sets, __4__ from papers.
However, newspapers remain __5__ because they give the news in more detail than either radio or TV. That is the main reason __6__ people continue to buy them.
DAEBGF
（十三）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once:
A. without B. Snowman C. find out D. that
E. pictures F. highest G. quickly
Is there anything strange high up in the world’s __1__ mountains If so, is it a big bear Is it a monkey Or is it a kind of man
No one knows. This mystery (谜) has puzzled the world for years.
In 1887, a mountain climber found large footprints in the snow. They looked like the footprints of a very large man. But men don’t walk __2__ shoes in the snow!
In 1906, another climber saw more than footprints. Far off, he saw a very large animal standing on two legs. As he watched, it ran very __3__.
Fifteen years later, newspapers had new stories about the “something”. A mountain climber said he had seen the “__4__” walk slowly across the snow, far below him. He said it looked like a very large man.
From then on, more and more people had stories to tell. But not until 1951 did a mountain climber bring back pictures of large footprints. The pictures showed clearly __5__ the Snowman walked on two legs. So it was not a bear or a monkey. Could it be an ape man The mystery grew! And the mystery keeps growing. Some day we may __6__ what it is that makes the large footprints.
FAGBDC
（十四）
Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once
A. sixth sense B. hundreds of C. waves D. dead E. barking F. seem G. event
Wild animals __1__ to have escaped the Indian Ocean tsunami (海啸), adding weight to ideas they possess a “__2__” for disasters, experts said on Thursday.
Sri Lanka wildlife officials have said the giant __3__ that killed over 24,000 people along the Indian Ocean island’s coast seemingly missed wild beasts, with no __4__ animals found.
“No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit. I think animals can sense disasters. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening,” H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of Sri Lanka’s Wildlife Department, said on Wednesday.
The waves washed floodwaters up to 3 km inland at Yala National Park in the southeast, Sri Lanka’s biggest wildlife reserve and home to __5__ wild elephants.
“There has been a lot of evidence about dogs __6__ or birds migrating before volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. But it has not been proven,” said Matthew van Lierop, an animal behaviour specialist at Johannesburg Zoo.
“There have been no specific studies because you can’t really test it in a lab or field setting,” he said. Other authorities agreed with this conclusion.
FACDBE
（十五）
Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once:
A. official B. traditional C. main D. never
E. other F. falls on G. importantly
Thanksgiving is celebrated in the US and Canada. In the US, it __1__ the fourth Thursday of November every year. Kids are happy because they get the day off school. They have time to stay with family and more __2__, enjoy a big dinner. Turkey is the most __3__ food of the dinner. Ever since Thanksgiving was made a(n) __4__ holiday in 1863 in the US, turkey has always been on the menu. This is why Thanksgiving is also called Turkey Day.
Many __5__ foods also come with the main dish. Pumpkin pie is a popular dessert for the day. People also eat sweet potatoes with brown sugar or maple syrup (枫糖浆). What a sweet taste!
However, one should __6_ forget to express what he or she is thankful for. Just as the proverb goes: Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
FGBAED
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