八年级下册英语(短文填空)首字母填空15篇 附答案

八年级下册英语（短文填空）首字母填空15篇Passage 1New Bug Hits MexicoMexican people have a tradition of greeting each other with handshakes and kisses on the cheek. But recently, government officals 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 monuth. 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 casses, 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) twenly 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 senconds. Next put your hands under running water and make them clean. At last,dry them with a c_________(10)colth.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 sclool,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.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 because c______(9)to everyone in my class. The boy with the lucky smile has because 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) ourseves,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 photes. 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 ont locked? A thief could get in .” The mother answered softly, “ The door has never been locked since you left.”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 aften s________(3). But his wift 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 Europr(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-hopping also 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 retuin to England.Rcently,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. Peopole 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 meory(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.School 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 1 1.stay 2. sick 3. disease 4. caught 5. washPassage 2 1.wash 2. from 3. eating 4. Because 5. dirty 6. smell 7. wet 8. areas 9. least 10. clean Passage 3 1.smile 2. junior 3. knew 4. anyone 5. entered 6. back 7. feel 8. changed 9. closer 10. gone Passage 4 1.eat 2. knowledge 3. interested 4. while 5. read 6. try 7. way 8. by 9. always 10. more Passage 5 1.close 2. talk 3. around 4. feel 5. get 6. sad 7. how 8. news 9. Being 10. caresPassage 6. poor 2. died 3. looking 4. corner 5. back 6. daughter 7. words 8. opened 9. happy 10. parents’Passage 7 1.ago 2. into 3. supper 4. hoped 5. flowers 6. It 7. tired 8. lasted 9. answer 10. fallPassage 8. 1.dinner 2. out 3. born 4. three 5. another 6. change 7. higher 8. givesPassage 9. sister 2. biggest 3. return 4. international 5. offices 6. sent 7. away 8. Chinese 9. over 10. agreed Passage 10. 1. dream 2. sleep 3. every 4. because 5. find 6. talking 7. up 8. be 9. more 10. tiredPassage 11. 1.blind 2.heard 3.darkest/dark 4.round 5.works 6.through 7.things 8.ears 9.able 10.food Passage 12. 1.trying 2. flowers 3. when 4. until 5. weak 6. However 7. himself 8. feeling 9. in 10 meant Passage 13. 1. learn, 2. everything, 3. show, 4. themselves, 5. important, 6. use, 7. lot, 8. because, 9. outside, 10. give Passage 14. 1. books 2. read 3. borrow4. them 5. pay 6. library 7. when 8. find 9. with 10. careful Passage 15. 1. kinds 2. jumping 3. find 4. flying 5. or 6. number 7. them 8. enough 9. kill 10. protect。