选修八课文语法填空

选修八Unit 1 A land of diversity

Welcome to our village. I’d like to tell you _________ we fought against the flood last year. Last summer there was too ________ rain and a serious flood hit our village, flooding the fields and roads, _________ away many of our houses ________ even bringing danger to the people’s safety.

_______ the help of the PLA, we would not have been able to overcome the difficulties, win the battle _______ the terrible flood, and get ________ fairly good harvest last autumn. What moved us most is ________ the village head, Zhang Deming, let the flood flow into his fish-pond, preventing _______ from going into the village.

We all thought _________(high) of his devoted spirit in the interests of the whole village. We should learn from him.

Unit 2 Cloning

Cloning is a way of _________(make) an exact copy of another animal and plant. ________ has two major uses. One is _________ gardeners use it to produce commercial quantities of plants. The ________ is that it is valuable for research on new species and for medical research on animals.

________, the process of cloning is difficult to undertake.

Many attempts to clone mammals failed. The first successful clone, Dolly the sheep, made the whole ________(science) world follow its process, though it had _______ problems than the normal sheep. On the other hand, Dolly’s appearance _________(raise) a storm of abjections and had a great

impact _______ the media and public imagination. Different people have different opinions of it. However, scientists still wonder whether cloning will help _______ harm us and where it is leading us.

Unit 3 Inventors and inventions

__________ the writer called up her mother in the country on the phone, she learned that snakes came near their house and that the snakes seemed __________(make) their home near their house. The writer felt proud and considered __________ a chance for her to distinguish

__________by inventing something _________ would catch snakes but not harm them. She set about __________(research) the habits of snakes. She decided to cool them so that they could be ________(easy) caught. However, her first two plans were not successful. As a result, she had to attempt a

_________ time, which helped her fulfill her aim successfully. She was

_________ delighted that she was determined to send her _________(invent) to the patent office to get recognition for her successful idea.

Unit 4 Pygmalion

Eliza Doolittle was ________ unrefined, dirty flower girl with poor phonetics _________Professor Higgins was an expert in phonetics. One day they happened to meet each other while ________(hide) from the rain. When Eliza was talking with a gentleman, Higgins always watched her and took notes, ________ made her get worried, for she thought he was a

policeman _________ disguise. In fact he just showed interest in her poor phonetics and made a bet with Colonel Pickering ________ he was going to meet. Higgins said once ________(educate) to speak properly, Eliza could pass __________ off in three months as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party. After that Higgins threw a ________(hand) of money into her basket and left with Pickering, leaving Eliza ________(excite) and in amazement. Eliza decided to find him the next day.

Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors

A group of students from England has come to the Zhoukoudian Cave for a visit. _______ archaeologist is showing them around. The archaeologists ___________(excavate) here for many years. After finding human and animal bones _________ those caves higher up the hill as well as tools and ornaments, they think __________ reasonable to assume they lived in these caves, regardless of the cold. They discovered fireplaces in the center of the caves ________ they constructed fires. Some evidence suggests that our ancestors did _________ clothes __________(make) from animal skins. The archaeologist also shows the students a primitive necklace

__________(preserve) quite well. Indeed, as the botanical analysis has been __________ (special) showing us, all the fields around here used to be part of part of a large shallow lake. Perhaps there was trade between early people __________ they traveled to the seaside on their journeys.

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Unit 1

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Unit 2

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Unit 3

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Unit 4

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