新目标英语八年级下册 专项训练四

新目标英语八年级下册专项训练四、词语运用阅读下面短文,根据短文内容用方框内所给词语的适当形式填空,使短文语义完整, (一定要注意形式变化)AEveryone ____1____ gifts. Some little kids think they don’t get enough gifts. Some old people thin k they get too many gifts. Different people like different kinds____2_____ gifts. Gift giving is different in different____3_____. In Japan, people sometimes give_____4____ gifts. But they are not opened. Later, the samegift may be given__5_____to someon e else. Many people have enough things and don’t want too many gifts_____6____. In the USA, some people ask their _____7____ and friends to give money to ____8____rather than buy them gifts. In Sweden, doing something for someone is the __9____ gift. Peop le don’t need to spend too much money. Instead, ____10_____ a meal is enough.(B)（09锦州）Liu's world of magicLiu Qian is a magician(魔术师)from Taiwan．For theCCTV Spring Festival Gala(春晚)he put on two magicshows．They wore very__1__．Now__2__ismad aboutmagic．We__3__want to know how to do a trick!Liu didn't go to__4__magic sch001．He learnedby__5__．He worked hard at it．Now he is a great magician．When Liu was seven，he saw a coin trick__6__a bigstore．At that moment Liu decided．__7__magic．Liu practiced hard__8__his skills．Then one day he wasable to put on a show__9__his class．“I__10__the surprise on everyone’s face．It was cool．”Liu still practices hard today．He may spend three years working on a new show．Thank you for 1 me the stamps. 2 I started collecting stamps when I was young. I have more than 300 stamps 3 . I like them and I 4 like the stamps you sent to me. I have 5 them in the photo albumin my drawer. To collect stamps I like, I 6 my money. But I want 7 money to start stamp 8 club. Would you like to join it? 9 , what’s your hobby?If you know anyone 10 who collects them, please let me know.Yours 11VeraDMy father uauslly travels to work with a handbag that I 1 him last Father’s Day. He put aii hia useful things in the handbag. Of all the things, he likes his notebook computer 2 because most of his work is stored in it. My father said,"It is one of the best 3 in the world. Such a small object can store so much information. How 4 !"Years ago, my father 5 to take lots of documents and work-related papers with him. Because he had to read them at home or on the way to work. Nice times out of ten, it is good to 6 through the notebook computer rather than 7 lots of papers. So he doesn’t need to take heavy papers with him every day. Often I put some 8 of my family in his handbag. The pictures can remind him 9 home after work. They also remind him that something 10 than work is the family.Have you ever had a day when everything seemed to go wrong, and nothing seemed to go right ?Not too long ago, I was 1 . I told my mother all about it, hoping for some pity.Instead, she said, "I heard Jamie was having a difficult day too. 2 don't you make her some cookies7"I didn't 3 want to do that, but I didn't want to go back to my other problems, either.I made the cookies and 4 them in a box. Then I made a card with some 5 on it andwrote a small note.That afternoon I went to my friend's 6 . When Jamie came to the door, she looked at me 7 . Before she could say anything, I said, "I heard you were having a hard day and decided to bring you 8 . I hope your day goes better. " The look on Jamie's face was one that I could never put into words. It was 9 a dark sky suddenly, turned into sunshine.when I 10 , I felt a lot better. That day I knew that those who brought sun- shine to others, could also keel), it for themselves.1.sad.2.why.3.really.4.put.5.flowers6.house.7.surprised8.something.9.as if. 10.gotbackFthink they get too many gifts. Different people like different kinds__2_ gifts. Gift giving is different in different__3__. In Japan, people sometimes give__4__ gifts. But they are not opened. Later, the same gift may be given__5__to someone else. Many people have enough things and don’t want too many gifts __6_. In the USA, some people ask their __7__ and friends to give money to __8__rather than buy them gifts. In Sweden, doing something for someone is the __9____ gift. People don’t need to spend too much money. Instead, ___10__ a meal is enough.61-70 likes of countries special away themselves families charity best makingG根据短文意思，用方框中所给词语的适当形式填空，使文章通顺、完整(其中有两个多余选项)。

1 , believe in yourself!young boy, I was too shy to speak to anyone. My classmates often laughed 2 me. I was sad but could do nothing. Later, something happened, and it 3 my life. It was an English speech contest(比赛). My mother asked me to take 4 in it. What a terrible idea! It meant I had to speak 5 all the teachers and students of my school!“Come on, boy. Believe in yourself! You are sure to 6 .” Then mother and I talked about many different topics. At last I 7 the topic “Believe in yourself”. I tried my best to remember all the speech and 8 it over 100 times. With my mother’s great love, I did well in the contest. I could ___9___ believe my ears when the news came that I had won the first place.I heard the cheers from the teachers and students. Those classmates who once looked 10 on me, now all said congratulations to me.HLight travels at a speed(速度) which is about a million times 1 . ________ than that of sound. 2. ________ one second, light travels about 300,000 kilometers, but sound travels only 340 meters. You can get some idea of this difference by 3. ________ the start of a running match. If you stand far away from the starter(发令员), you can see smoke 4.________ from his gun 5.________ the sound reaches your ears.The fast speed of light produces some strange facts. The nearest star is 6. ________ far away that light which you can see from it tonight started to travel to you four years 7. ________ at a speed of nearly two million kilometers every minute. The light from some of tonight’s started on 8. ________ journey towards you even before you were born.So, if we want to be honest(诚实), we 9. ________ say , “ The stars are shining brightly tonight.” We have to say, “ The stars look nice. They were 10. ________ four years ago but their light has just reached our earth. ”IA man was sitting in the doctor’s office. He was telling the doctor about his 1 . ________ .“I like football, Doctor.” He said, “ Please help me. My life has 2. ________ been a good one since I became 3. ________ in football and it is getting worse and worse. I can’t even 4.________ from it in my sleep. When I close my 5.________, I’m out there in the football field and 6. ________ after a flying ball. When I wake up, I’m more 7. ________than I was before I went to bed. What am I going to do? ”The doctor sat back and said, “ First of all, you 8. ________ to do your best not to dream(做梦) about football. Before you fall asleep, try to 9. ________about something else. Try to think that you are at a party and someone is going to give you several million dollars.”“ Are you crazy (疯了) ?” the man shouted, “ I’ll 10. ________ the ball !”JYou may think there is nothing but sand in the desert of the world, but it is not true. In the desert we can 1._______ stones. We can see hills, too. There is a little rain in the 2.________, but it is not 3. ______ for most plants.The animals are 4. _______ to the desert people in many ways. The desert people eat the meat and drink the milk of the animals. They use their skins to 5. ________ shoes, water bags and even tents(帐篷). They use the camels(骆驼) for 6. _______ things.The people of the desert have to keep 7. _______ from places to place. They must always look for grass or desert plants for their animals. They usually live in the tents. When there is mo more food for their animals, they take down their tents, put them on the camels and move to 8. _______place. The desert people are very 9. _______. No man in the desert would ever refuse to help the people in 10._______ and give them food and water.。