牛津译林版八年级英语下册Unit4首字母填空专项练习
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Bookstores are second homes for readers. Although many people can now buy books 1. o________ , many reader still like the 2. f________ in bookstores. They can 3. t________ the books and smell the print.
In China, there are many special bookstores. Sanlian Taofen Bookstore became the first 24-hour bookstore in Beijing at the 4. b________ of April. Popular Holdings in Shanghai is a film-themed bookstore. It has film books and posters. Eslite Bookstore in Taiwan often has activities like talks with famous writers.
At the 5. s________ time, bookstores outside China can be very colourful too. Scarthin Books is a small bookstore in the UK. It 6. s________ new and second-hand books. There are more than 10, 000 books 7. l________ on the shelves of the store's 12 rooms. Bart's Books in the US is a good place to enjoy the sunshine while reading books. It's an 8. o________ bookstore. Bookshelves are on the street. When the store is 9. c________ , people can still buy books. They just put money into the door's coin box. Where can you find a cafe, bar and bookstore in just one place? The answer is probably El Pendulo in Mexico. Books line (排列成行) the walls of the store. On the second floor, visitors can 10. o________ everyday meals in the cafe and drinks from the bar. In order to keep cool, there are green plants and trees inside. Does it look like a park?
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Sometimes you fall n love with something at once and sometimes it takes long. The same is true with poems. If you are lucky 1. e________ , you open a book and find a poem that attracts you at once. But usually you need to spend a little 2. t________ or make a little effort to truly understand a poem. Today I'd like to talk about reading poems in ways that make the experience better,
Reading a poem repeatedly will deepen your understanding of it. Sometimes a poem that seems 3. b________ on first reading becomes interesting with more reading. A poem that feels meaningless becomes deeper and more meaningful. And sometimes you're just not in the right mood the first time you read a poem, but 4. l________ it touches your heart.
Keep a dictionary at hand when you are reading poems. Poets like to use 5. u________ words. Instead of skipping over (跳过) these words or trying to 6. g________ their meanings, look them up.
Read aloud and listen to the poem. Reading aloud will make the poem's rhythm clear. Besides, a poet's reading is very helpful 7. b________ you can understand the poem's meanings from where the poet places emphasis (强调) or pauses (停顿) .
After you finish reading a poem, take a few moments to consider 8. w________ it is saying. Sometimes its meanings are better understood 9. t________ repeated reading, Other times they need your careful and deep thought on a poem.
It is 10. h________ to say whether there's a right or wrong way to read poems, but reading practices will enrich your experience, increase your enjoyment and deepen your understanding of any poem.
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Are you 1. i________ in adventure (探险) stories? Do you want to take a trip to an unknown world? If you do, please read the book Cloud Bound 2. b________ Rachael Kelly.
Rachael Kelley, 13, is a seventh-grade student in New Jersey, the US now. She 3. s________ writing a short story in December, 2010, but as new ideas kept coming to her, the story 4. g________ longer and longer. "It is a story about a girl who can predict (预测) the future. She travels around the world to save people's memory, "Rachael said. Finally, it became a 136-page 5. n________ .
Michelle Kelley, her mother, said, "She always has many different and new ideas, so I wasn't 6. s________ when she started a book like this. We all thought she was writing a story, but later she told us 'I think this is going to be a long book'. "
The idea to write a book came to Rachael from one of her friends. The friend was writing a book when Rachael 7. v________ him one day. After taking with him, Rachael decided to write a book of her 8. o________ . With the help of her parents, Rachael worked on editing (编辑) the novel for a whole year. Rachael then 9. s________ the book to the Library of Congress (代表大会) for official copyright registration (官方版权注册) and began to sell it on the Internet. Recently, the book is printed and is sold well in bookshops.
However, Rachael doesn't stop now. She has 10. a________ started another story. She hopes to go on writing when she gets older.
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Reading newspapers has become an important part of everyday life. Some 1. p________ read newspapers as the first thing to do in the morning others read newspapers as soon as they have free time during the day so that they can learn what is 2. h________ in the world.
Sometimes, we do not have enough time to read all the news 3. c________ , so we just take a quick look at the front page. At other times, we may be so busy 4. t________ we only have a few minutes to look at the names of the passages.
Newspapers can be 5. f________ everywhere in the world. We can get many different kinds of newspapers in big cities, but in some mountain villages we can see 6. f________ newspapers.
Some newspapers are published once a week, 7. b________ most of the papers are published once a day with many pages, some even published (出版) twice a day! You know different people enjoy reading different newspapers. Some like world news, and others prefer short stories. They just choose what they are 8. i________ in.
Today newspapers in English have the largest number of 9. r________ in the world. The English language is so popular, and 10. m________ Chinese students are reading English newspapers such as China Daily and 21st Century. They bring us more and more messages together with the Internet.
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There is an old saying, "Take the time to stop and 1. s________ the flowers. "I think we should also take the time to plant flowers.
My grandmother knew just how to do that. She grew flowers with earth, 2. w________ and love, so her back garden was 3. f________ with beautiful flowers. She would smile when she saw the sun 4. s________ down on them. In her 5. f________ garden, she planted flowers too. You could see red, white and yellow flowers in it. My mum and I used to walk around them and enjoy their smells. Beautiful butterflies 6. f________ down on them. Grandma also 7. c________ for the wild flowers. She would send me and my brother out to pick flowers and would then turn them into delicious wine.
Grandma not only planted flowers in the gardens 8. b________ also planted flowers in our hearts. Her delicious dinners made with love encouraged us. Her sweet smile always made us happy. Her hugs and kisses were the sunshine that kept our own love 9. g________ day after day.
Take the time to plant a few flowers yourself today. Show your smiles, 10. k________ and love. Plant your wishes, talents and pleasure. Make this world brighter with your sunshine.
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When I was a child, my mum liked to make food for dinner every now and then. One night she made 1. d________ after long, hard work.
That evening, my mum placed a plate of eggs, sausages and burned (烤焦的) 2. c________ in front of my dad. I was waiting to 3. s________ if anyone would say anything. Yet, my dad just reached for his cookies, smiled 4. a________ my mum and asked me how my day was at school. I didn't remember what I told him that night, 5. b________ I clearly remembered —watching him eat every bite of the cookies!
When I got up from the table that evening, I heard my mum apologize (道歉) to my dad for 6. b________ the cookies. And I will never forget what he 7. s________ , "Dear, I love the burned cookies. "
Later that night, I went to kiss Dad good night andIa8 him if he really liked his burned cookies. He hugged me and said, "Your mum had a 9. h________ work today, and she's very tired. Besides, a little burned cookie never hurts 10. a________ !"
Life is full of imperfect (不完美的) things and imperfect people. We need to learn to accept each other's faults (过失) and enjoy each other's differences. Try to understand it and change our mind.
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Not long ago, I made up my mind to read a lot of books to get more knowledge. So I went to the library and 1. r________ happily with several books. But after a few days, I felt impatient. The 2. i ________ of finishing all of them seemed impossible because I always found it 3. h________ to calm down to read a whole book. I didn't know what to do with it. Then 4. s________ one day I thought of "Why not make reading fun?". It gave me 5. h________ again. Reading is a journey of spirit (精神) . Every time we read a book, we are actually talking 6. w________ the writer. I tried to put all my effort into his or her books, 7. s________ I could feel all of his or her happiness and suffering. Now books have become part of my life.
See? Attitude (态度) can 8. m________ a great difference. Someone once said, "Even though the situation is bad, people sill have one freedom (自由) to 9. c________ their attitude. "So, don't complain about study or work. It helps 10. n________ . Try to see things from a different way. Believe me, this will change the situation and help you a lot.
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What is a library for? Most libraries have books and other things to 1. r________ . Many of them have things to listen to. Some libraries even have computers for people to look for information on the 2. I________ . Very 3. f________ people would think of a library as a place to live.
One library in New York City 4. t________ into a home for 250 people for a few days. There were people 5. e________ in the library. They slept on the floor. 6. W________ did the people move into the library? The people moved into the library 7. b________ the city wanted to close it to 8. s________ money. These 250 New Yorkers loved their library. They didn't want to 9. l________ it, so they moved in. They knew that the library couldn't be closed if they were living inside it. At last, the city 10. a________ to keep the library open, and the people all went home.
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1.online 2. feeling 3. touch 4. beginning 5.same 6.sells 7. lying 8. outdoor 9. closed 10. order
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1.enough 2. time 3.boring 4. later 5.unusual 6.guess 7. because 8. what 9.through 10.hard
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1. interested 2. by 3. started 4. got 5.novel 6.surprised 7.visited 8. own 9.sent 10. already
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1.people 2.happening 3.carefully 4. that 5.found 6.fewer 7. but 8. interested 9. readers 10. many
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1.smell 2.water 3.filled 4. shine 5.front 6. flew 7.cared 8. but 9. growing 10. kindness
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1.dinner 2.cookies 3. see 4.at 5. butl6.burning 7. said 8. asked 9. hard 10. anyone/anybody
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1.returned 2. idea 3.hard4.suddenly!5.hope 6. with 7.soon 8. make 9.choose 10. nothing
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1. read 2. Internet 3. few 4. turned 5. eating 6. Why 7. because 8. save 9. lose 10. agreed