八年级英语首字母填空--专项练习Passage 1New Bug Hits MexicoMexican people have a tradition of greeting each other with handshakes and kisses on the cheek. But recently, government officials asked people to stop doing this. They have also closed school and museums, and advised people to s______(1)at home.This is to prevent people from catching an infectious(传染性的)disease, swine flu(猪流感). The disease has spread over the country in the past month. It has killed 159 people and caused 4,000 to become s________(2).What is swine flu?Swine flu is a disease that causes respiratory(呼吸的) illness in pigs. It spreads to people in two ways. They catch the virus(病毒) after being with infected pigs,or they get it from an infected person.The d ___(3)spreads in the same way as human flu, through coughs and sneezes, or by touching a contaminated surface(被污染的表面) and then touching the nose or mouth. However , it cannot be spread by eating pork.People who have c_______(4) swine flu will have fever, a cough, a sore throat and body aches. In most cases, the infection makes people unwell but their lives will not be in danger.Health experts advise people to w________(5)their hands frequently,to cover coughs and sneezes and to stay at home if they feel ill.Passage2 Global Handwashing Day (全球洗手日)Wednesday, October 15th,2008 is the first Global Handwashing Day. Many people w_______(1)their hands with soap (肥皂) on the day. They are f_______(2) twenty countries.Experts(专家) say it is important for people to wash their hands with soap at some critical moments, such as before e___________(3) and after using the toilet. B________(4)they can get germs(细菌)on their hands when they do those things. Then their hands can make their eyes and noses d_________(5) and make people ill. They say that soap is helpful in washing hands. It can help remove(祛除)germs and leave a pleasant s__________(6).The experts also give the right way to wash hands. First put your hands into the water and make them w______(7). Then cover them with soap and rub(摹) in into all a______(8). Rub for at l_________(9)twenty seconds. Next put your hands under running water and make them clean. At last, dry them with a c_________(10)cloth.Global Handwashing Day can help people keep healthy.Passage3 A Beautiful SmileWhen I was 13 years old, a boy gave me an important gift. It was a s________(1).It was the early autumn of my first year at a j_______(2)high school,and my old school was far away. As a result, no one k_________(3)who I was. I was very lonely,and afraid to make friends with a_______(4) Every time I heard the other students talking and laughing,I felt my heart break. I couldn’t talk to anyone about me.Then one day,my classmates talked happily with their friends,but I sat at my desk. I couldn’t talk to anyone about my problem, and I didn’t want my parents to worry about me.Then one day,my classmates talked happily with their friends,but I sat at my desk unhappily as usual. At that moment, a boy e_____(5)the classroom. I didn’t know who he was. He passed me and then turned b______(6). He looked at me and, without a word,smiled.Suddenly , I felt the touch of something bright and friendly. It made me f_____(7)happy,lively and warm.That smile c_____(8)my life. I started to talk with the other students and made friends. Day by day,I became c______(9)to everyone in my class. The boy with the lucky smile has became my best friend now. One day, I asked him why he smiled, but he couldn’t remember smiling at me!It doesn’t matter because all the dark days have g______(10). Now I believe that the world is what you think it is. If you think you are lonely,you might always be alone. So smile at the world and it will smile back.Passage 4Food is very important. Everyone needs to e________(1)well if he or she wants to have a strong body. Our minds also need a kind of food. This kind of food is k________(2). We begin to get knowledge even when we are very young. Small children are i________(3) in everything around them. They learn something w______(4)they are watching and listening. When they are getting older, they begin to r _____(5) story books,science books, anything they like. When they find something new, they love to ask questions and t_____(6) to find out the answers.What is the best w______(7)to get knowledge? If we learn b______(8) ourselves, we will get the most knowledge. If we are a________(9) getting answers from others and do not ask why, we will never learn well. When we study in the right way , we learn more and understand m____(10).Passage 5Everyone needs friends. We all like to feel c_________(1)to someone. It is nice to have a friend to t_______(2),laugh,and to do things. Certainly, sometimes we need to be alone. We don’t always want people a_______(3). But we would f_________(4) lonely if we never had a friend.No two people are just the same. Friends sometimes don’t g_______(5)on well. It doesn’t mean that they no longer like each other. Most of the time they will make up(重归于好) and become friends again.Sometimes friends move away. Then we feel very s_______(6). We miss them very much, but we can call them and write to them. And we can make new friends. It is surprising to find out h____(7) much we like new people when we get to know them.There is more good n________(8) for people who have friends. They live longer than people who don’t. why? It could be that they are happier. B ____(9) happy helps you stay well. Or it could be just knowing that someone cares. If someone c______(10) about you,you take better care of yourself.Passage6A teenage girl couldn’t stand her parents’ family rules, so she left home. She wanted to be famous. But she had p_______(1)education and several years later she had to ask for food on the street for a living. Now her father has d_________(2). Her mother is an old woman. But she is still l________(3)for her daughter. She has been to every c________(4)of the city. Everywhere she goes,she put up a big photo of herself on the wall. At the lower part of the photo she writes, “ I still love you …come b_____(5) home!”One day , the d_____(6)saw one of the photos. The face was familiar(熟悉). “ Is that my mother?” she moved closer and read the w________(7): I still love you …She cried. When she got home, it was early morning. She knocked on the door. The door o__________(8)itself. She rushed to her mother’s bedroom. Her mother was sleeping. She woke her mother up, “ It’s me! Your daughter is back home!” The daughter asked, “Why is the door not locked? A thief could get in .” The mother answered softly, “ The door has never been locked since you left.” The door of p_________(10) love for their children will never be closed.Mr . Baker worked in a small town. Two weeks a_____(1), his friends helped him to find a job in New York. So he and his wife were going to move i________(2) a building in the big city. Mr. Baker wanted to live in a room on the first floor and he could go for a walk in the beautiful garden after s________(3). But his wife h________(4) to live on the second floor.“There’s enough sunlight, I think. And we can watch the f______(5)in the garden by the windows,” said the woman . Mr.Baker thought she was right and agreed with her. I_________(6)was Saturday. All their friends came to help them. They were t_____(7) and hungry, and Mrs. Baker got nice food ready. They held a party. They ate and drank a lot. Then they kept singing and dancing. It l_________(8)a long time.Suddenly the telephone rang. Mrs. Baker went to a______(9) it. Then she said to her husband proudly, “My choice is right! The man downstairs complained the phone that noise in our rooms makes them not f______(10)asleep.”Passage 8 Most Americans’ HobbiesMost Americans enjoy moving from place to place. For example, they often drive their cars 120 to 160 kilometres away just to have d_________(1) with a friend or even fly to Europe(欧洲)just for watching a football match. In some states only one person o________(2) of five lives in a place for more than five years. One may be b_________(3)in one city ,and go to school in another. He may finish his middle school in two or t________(4)cities, and then go to a college far across the country. When he has entered (进入)business, he may possibly move from job to job. Moving from one job to a _______(5), which is called “job-hopping”,is a very common practice in the United States. Job-hopping is good to workers, because every c__________(6)of a job gives them a chance to move up to a h______(7) position and to get better pay. And job-hoppingalso g_______(8) bosses the chance to get new ideas and skills that different people bring to their companies and factories.Passage 9Mike Robinson is a 15-year-old English schoolboy. His s_____(1)Clare is 14. At the moment, Mike and Clare are at a school in Sydney, one of the b________(2)cities in Australia. They have been there for two years. They like the school, but they know that soon they will leave and r________(3)to England with their parents.Mike and Clare have also been to school in America, Germany, France and China. This is because their father, Peter, works for a very big i_________(4)company. The company has o_______(5)in many different countries. The company has s______(6)Peter to work in many different countries. Peter usually stays in one country for about two years. Then the company moves him a________(7) . His family always goes with him.The Robinsons are a happy family and love seeing the world. Mike and Clare have learnt to speak French, German and a little C______(8). The two children have friends all o________(9)the world. But they are glad that they are going to return to England.Recently, the children told their parents, “We want to stay in England. We don’t want to move again.”Their father a_______(10)and has asked his company to keep him in England. The company has agreed. Mike and Clare are very happy about this.“Dreams may be more important than sleep. We all need to d_______(1),” some scientists say.Dreams take up (占据)about one quarter of our s________(2) time. People have several dreams e________(3)night. Dreams are like short films. They are usually in colour. Some dreams are like old films. They come to us over and over again. That may be b_________(4) the dreamer is worrying about something. Dreaming may be a way of trying to f_____(5) an answer.Some people get new ideas about their work from dreams. They may have been t_______(6)about their work all day. These thoughts can carry over(携人)into dreams.Sometimes we wake u______(7)with a good feeling from a dream. But often we can’t remember the dream. Dreams can disappear(消失)quickly from memory(记忆).Too much dreaming can b_____(8)harmful(有害的). The m________(9)we sleep, the longer we dream. The mind is hard at work when we dream. That is why we may have a long sleep and still wake up t______(10).Passage 11Bats(蝙蝠) are the only flying “animals”in the world. It is known to all that they cannot see very well. “As b_______(1) as a bat”is often h______ (2). Yet, they have no trouble flying on the d________(3) nights and finding their way r________(4) very well. Why can bats fly and see at night? They fly by“radar(雷达)”.The bat's radar w______ (5) the same way as the radar on ships and planes. As a bat flies t_________(6) the air, it makes a sound. If the sounds hit t_________(7), they will come back and the bat's e__________(8) will receive the message. In this way, the bat is a_________(9) to know where the things are. Bats go out for f_________(10) at night. In the daytime, they hang in some dark places.Passage 12There are four people in my family. Every day my parents are very busy t (1) to make money in order to pay the high tuition(学费）for my brother and me. They hardly say "I love you" or send f (3)to each other. Besides，my father has a bad temper(脾气）．It is easy for him to lose his temper w (4) he's very tired from the hard work. I didn't know whether there was love between them u (5) one spring. At that time，my father suddenly got badly sick .My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they returned from the hospital，they both looked very w (6) as if both of them had a serious illness.After they were back，my mother helped my father walk slowly on the country road every day in the morning and dusk. H (7)，after two months my father still couldn't walk by h (8) ．All of us were worried about him."Dad，how are you f (8) now?" I asked him one day."Susan，don't worry about me.”he said i (9) a low voice.“I just like walking with your mom. I like this kind of life.”Reading his eyes，I know he loves my mother very much.Once I thought love m (10) flowers，presents and sweet kisses. But from this experience，I understand that love is inside，making life strong and warm.Passage 13School education(教育) is very important and useful. Yet no one can l 1 everything at school and a teacher can’t teach his students e 2 they want to know. His job is to s 3 his students how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So the students can learn much more by t 4 .It is more i 5 to know how to study by oneself. It’s quite easy to learn something, but it’s difficult to u 6 it to solve problems. Great inventors do not get everything from school, but they still can invent many things and change the world a l 7 .How can the inventors do all of this? That’s b 8 they know how to study. A lot of things are not taught in the classroom. They get a lot of knowledge by reading o 9 school. They work hard and never g 10 up all their lives.Passage 14Our school has a big library. It has many b______1 on different subjects. Students can r______2 books and magazines in the reading-room. They can also b_______3 books from the library. But they must return t______4 on time. If they lose the books, they must p______5 for them. Miss Yang works in the l_______6. She is very helpful and kind to the students.One morning she was working at the desk w______7 Li Ping hurried in. She told Miss Yang that she couldn’t f______8 the library book “Red Star Over China”. At that moment Lucy came into the library w_______9 Li Ping’s book. She found it in the classroom. Li Ping was very happy. She thanked Lucy and said that she would be more c_______10 from then on.Passage 15I have lived in the countryside since I was a child. There were many k 1 of birds there when I was young. Every morning, lots of sparrows liked singing and j 2 in the trees outside my window, while the swallows were busy flying out to f 3 food for their babies. Sometimes in the afternoon, I could even see eagles f 4 in the sky.After twenty years, many of them cannot be seen now. I can seldom see the eagles o 5 the swallows. The n 6 of the sparrows is getting smaller. Only some of t 7 sing in the morning.Why do the birds leave here? First I think it is because the environment is becoming worse now. The birds can’t find e 8 food for themselves and their babies. Second I think it is because people often k 9 them for food.Without the birds around, we won’t feel happy any more. So we must p 10 them. Why don’t we do something to help today?Passage 16Once a little boy was sad all day. His mother told him to go out to look for love. He knew it may cost him much time to find w_______ love was. So he prepared many things w______ with pizzas and drinks and started off. When he walked p_____ a park, he found an old woman sitting there and watching birds. She looked hungry. The boy gave her a pizza.She took it and smiled at him. The smile was so beautiful that he wanted to see it again. He gave her a coke. The woman smiled again.The boy was happy because he felt love. They sat there all the afternoon, eating and s________. But they said nothing.Whenit grew dark, he decided to leave. Before l______, he turned around and hug(拥抱) the woman. She gave herthe biggest smile ever. When he arrived home, his mother was s________ at his look of joy on his face and asked what m_____ him so happy. He told his mother he got the m______beautiful smile. At the same time, he also found his mother’s p_______ and asked why. She said: “I had lunch with love in the park.”If the world is full of love, we can enjoy a b______ life.Passage 17Henry graduated from a famous university and found a good job in the bank. As he thought he was successful, he sometimes looked down on o_______. He couldn’t get on w______ with workmates and often made mistakes. Soon he was sent away. Then he found a job in a post office. He still couldn’t change his attitude(态度). He couldn’t be competent at it and he had to leave.After he lost his jobs, his life got w______ than before. He was very w_______ about his future. Luckily, a friend of his uncle’s f_____ pity(可怜的) for him and asked him to work in the restaurant. Of course he didn’t like the work at a____ , but he had no choice but to a______ it. After he worked there two months, he gradually(逐渐地) liked the work and learned much experience and was u_____ to the life in the restaurant. During that time,the most important thing for him is that he realized why he was not p______ with others in the past and what he needs to do later. In fact, it’s i________ for everyone to learn how to be polite.Passage 18If you go to London for the first time, you’ll see a lot of cars and buses on the road. You will also find many bicycles b______ now more and more people like to travel by bike.There are a lot of r_______ for this change. First, it’s cheap and quick to go by bike. Because of too much t______ in the city, sometimes it takes less time than t______ a bus.There are s______ many buses on the road that they move slowly. The underground is quick but expensive and often crowded.I traveled to work by bus for about four years. I often arrived at work l_______.Then one of my workmates said to me: “why don’t you try to come by bike? We can travel together.” But I felt frightened at that moment. My workmate a_______ me not to worry about this. He asked me to ride slowly and follow him. Soon I felt fine and don’t be a_______. Although we ride slowly, we arrived at work earlier. From then on, I like c________ and I think it’s a healthy way to exercise.Many people think in the same way as I do. That’s w_____ you see lots of bikes on the road. Perhaps in the future we’ll have roads for bikes only. I hope so.Passage 19Some students took their first no-teacher exam last week. After the teacher h_______ out exam papers, he left the classroom and never came back. One of the students collected papers when the exam e_______.This test was not only a test of k________, but also a test of moral(道德). Said the headmaster. Next year it wants 80% of exams to b_____ without teachers. But students have different ideas.Some students think it’s good for them to have a test without teachers. First, this change means teachers trust(信任) the students very much. Second, they feel more r_______ when there is no teacher. Because they think when teachers move a________ the classroom, it makes them nervous. O_______ think it’s important to have invigilators(监考人). If there are no teachers, some students may cheat in the exam or check their answers with each other. On the opposite(相反), teachers will s_______ them from doing that.Not using invigilators may be a good idea. But before using it, schools must tell students the i________ of honesty and try to find ways to s_______ something unusual in exams.Most American families are smaller than the families in o1countries. Most American familiese2have one or two children.C3in the US will leave their parents' home when they grow up. They usually live far f 4their parents because they want to find good jobs. They often w5to their parents or telephone them. And they often go to visit their parents on h 6 .Parents usually let their children choose their o7jobs. Americans think it important for young people to decide on their lives by themselves.Children are asked to do some work around their house. And in many families, children are paid (付钱) for d8some housework so that they learn how to make money for their own use.Do you often help y9parents do housework? Do you want to live with your parents w10you grow up ?Passage 21Lofton is a little village（村庄）in England. It is not f____1 from the city of Manchester. Not many families l_____2 around the village, so the people all know each o ______3. Most of them are friendly and helpful.Though their homes are in Lofton, many people have jobs in Manchester. S_4__ work in large factories there. A few work in shops o______5 offices. Most of these people go to work by train. It usually t____6 about half an hour to go from Lofton to Manchester.In the evening a lot of people like watching TV. But if they go to see a film or go to a concert (音乐会), they have to go to Manchester, because there are n_____7 cinemas in Lofton.Like many other villages near towns or cities, it is clean and quiet. So life in Lofton may not be so e_____8 as the life in the b____ 9 cities, but it can be just as interesting. That is w_____ 10 people in Lofton love their village.Passage 22One day I found a little girl sitting in the park sadly. Lots of people passed by but never s 1 to see why she looked so sad. As I got closer I saw that her b 2 had a strange shape. That’s a hump (驼背)! Perhaps that was the r3why people just passed by and make no effort to help. I sat down beside her and said, “Hello!” Then she, in a low voice, said, “Hi.” I smiled and she smiled b4shyly. Then we talked there u5it got dark. I asked the girl why she was so sad. She looked at me and said with a sad face, “Because of the hump.”“But, you make me t6of an angel (天使), sweet and friendly,” I said. She looked at me and asked, “Really?” I said, “Yes, I think you are an angel and you come here to watch over all those people walking by.” When she h7this, the little girl jumped up. “I am! I’m an angel!” I was happy because she was no sad any m8.After that, my life also changed. I learned how to s9 both happiness and sadness with others.I believe now we give something to others in the s10way we get the same.There was a big earthquake under the India Ocean Area o 1 December 26th 2004 and it c2a large tsunami. Tsunamis are great sea waves produced especially by an earthquake.That morning my classmates and I went to the seaside and had breakfast when we h3 a loud noise like bombs. People in the sea ran w 4 to the bank and s5, ‘Water is coming!’ Someone told us to run to a higher place. We ran as q 6 as we could.Since we did not know what happened, we were very f7. We looked back and saw a t8 picture. The water waves were so strong that cars were made to fall upside down and the flood w9 away everything on the seaside .We were safe but the n10 of victims was over 140,000. People call the day ‘Black Sunday’.Passage 24Man has a big brain. He can think and s 1 languages. Scientists once thought that man isn’t the same as animals b2man can think and learn. They know now that dogs, monkeys and birds can learn, too.They are beginning to u 3that men are different from animals because they can speak. Animals can’t speak. They make much n4when they are afraid, or unhappy. Apes(猿) can learn some things more quickly than man. One or two of them have learned a few words. But they cannot join words to makes 5 . They cannot think l 6 us because they have no language. Language is a wonderful thing. Man has been a7to build a modern world because he has language. Every child can speak his own language very w8when he is four or five, b9no animals learn to speak.How do children learn it? Scientists don’t really know w10happens inside our body when we speak. They only know that man can speak because he has a brain.Passage 25Fourteen –year-old girl Du Bingzi was walking towards her home .S1, a man stopped her and shouted, “Give me your money!”Du’s hands were c2by the man .But in one quick movement , she took back her arms and started to scream for attention. The man ran away without getting any of her money.Du is a student from Beijing No.25 Middle School . Her teacher Chen Han has started giving his students an u 3lesson: self-protection. Luckily, Du had just learned how to escape from an a 4, a person who plans to hurt someone.The school has taught self–protection for four years. During this time, about 5,000 students have learned to how to protect t5.According to a new survey, students’s 6 has become a big problem. Nearly 50% students say they are worried about r7on the way to and from school.This school is not the only one to care about students’ safety. Many other schools in China also have lessons l8 this. Student Ma Xiang said, “I learn how to save lives and most such courses tell students how to avoid (避免)d9 situations.” Students practice what to do if they are attacked bya bad person.They are taught how to save lives if someone is hurt. They also learn how to work t 10 and build team-spirit.A man had two sons. They were twins. They were b__1__ at almost the same time and looked quite alike. But in one important way, they were very d__2________ .One of them was an optimist(乐观主义者), while the o__3_____ was a pessimist(悲观主义者). The man was worried about his sons. There are good and bad things in one's life. He didn't want his sons to be too pessimistic or too optimistic. He told his best friend Johnson about this p__4____.Johnson was a man of many ideas. Then he asked, “W__5___ is their next birthday?"The father replied,” It’s on Wednesday. They will be twelve years old.”“Excellent,” Johnson said. "Here's what you should do. Give your pessimistic son a really n__6___ present. Give your optimistic son a really poor present. That will work!"The father did as his friend told him. On Wednesday morning, the two boys got their birthday p__7___. The pessimist looked at his first. It was a very expensive gold watch, but he was not pleased with it. He said, "Idon't l__8___ this very much. I am sure it won't keep good time. It will always be fast or s__9___ and it will probably break easily. Then I have to s__10___ lots of money getting it repaired. "Then the optimist looked at his present. He was really pleased. “Look! Dad has given me shoelaces(鞋带),” he said. He held up the shoelaces and said, "I can use it when I have new shoes.”Passage 27Trees are useful to men in three important ways: They p 1 them with wood and other products, they give them shade, and they help to p 2 drought and floods.Unfortunately（不幸运地）, in many p 3 of the world, men don’t know that the third of these is the most important. In their eagerness（渴望）of making m 4 from trees, some people cut trees down in large n 5 . And besides, they are usually too c 6 to plant and look after new trees, so the forests slowly b 7 smaller and smaller.This does not only mean that men will have fewer trees. The results are e 8 more serious: For where there are trees, their roots(根) prevent the rain from washing away the soil, but there are no trees, the rain falls on hard g 9 and flows away, causing f 10 and carrying away the rich top-soil（地表土）. When all the top-soil is gone, nothing remains（剩下）but death.Passage 28A 10-year-old school boy named Bian Jinyang, has made himself well-known by w 1 stories like Harry Potter’s.Bian Jinyang, Junior 1 student has written two books Shi guang Mo qi and Qin ren Bu luo. The first book has sold m_ 2__ than 120,000 copies in China and a third one, Tou zhong Jiao qing, will come out soon.Just like the Harry Potter stories, Bian’s stories are a 3 magic. But they do not take place in a magic school. They may h 4 in any corner of the world. Or even in outer s 5 In Qinren Buluo, Emperor Qin Shihuang sends 1, 000 boys and girls t__6 _ Japan, but aliens(太空人) take them to a 7 planet. Then a kid tries to take them b 8 to Earth.“People say I don’t have experience in life because I’m young.” He said, “They are r 9 . But just because of that I can write stories like these, I can think about things that adults can’t think of!”Now a company in the US has p 10 Bian ＄150,000 for the right(权力) to put his first book in English in America.。
