1、八年级英语选词填空French, same, words, Chinese, example, many, why, great, much, what, another, tell Languages change with time and the world. So does English. New _1_ are borrowed from other languages. About nine hundred years ago there were _2_ changes in England. A great _3_ words were borrowed into Engli
2、sh from _4_. About five hundred years ago there was _5_ change. This time it was a change in pronunciation(发音), but the spelling was not _6_ changed. English words are spelled quite the _7_ as they were in those days. The spelling shows how words were spoken at that time. It does not _8_ us much abo
3、ut the pronunciation of words today. For _9_, the letters “gh” in the word “night” show us nothing about how it is spoken now. Thats _10_ students learning English find English spelling so confusing（容易弄混淆的）. 答案简析 通过阅读，我们知道这是一篇关于英语词汇和读音的演变。1. words。意思是“一些新的词汇是借用于其他语言”。 2. great。“巨大的变化”为great change。
4、3. many。words为可数名词的复数形式，用many修饰。 4. French。从前文were borrowed into English from可知应填French(法语)。 5. another。大约500年前，英语又发生了变化。 6. much。英语发音虽然有了变化，但拼写没有太多的变化。 7. same。拼写还是和原来相同。 8. tell。前一句用shows，很显然，此处应用tell表示“告诉”。 9. example。这里是在举例子。For example意为“例如”。 10. why。由于英语在拼写方面没有太大的变化，而在读音上发生了变化。这就是学英语的学生拼写容易出错的
5、原因。 Exercise：A.短文填空，从下面方框中选出10个单词，用它们的适当形式填入短文空格内，使短文意思正确、通顺。（注意：每词限用一次，其中有两词多余） (enjoy,live,quiet,tired,small,dinner,behind,interesting,not,walk,no,take) Do you know Sun Garden?Sun Garden in good place ( ) in.Its a very ( ) district.Its ( ) on the busy street.If you are ( ) after work, you can ( )
6、the districts quietness here.And there is a ( )park near here.In the morning or after( ) you can ( ) through the park. ( ) the park is a bookstore.There are lots of ( ) books in the store.So you can often see lots of people reading books in the park. B： feel ,give ,turn,work ,help ,waiter ,thing ,ne
7、arly ,he ,only ,else, one. A woman was eating in a restaurant. She asked the waiter to do many (1)_for her. Now she was (2) _the waiter a lot of trouble. (3) _, she asked the waiter to turn on the air conditioner（空调）because she (4) _too hot. Then she asked him to (5) _it off because she was too cold
8、. This went on and on for (6) _half an hour. But the waiter was very kind and (7) _ .He did everything the woman asked (8) _ to do without getting angry. Finally, someone (9) _ in the restaurant asked why the (10) _ didnt just throw the woman out. “Oh, I dont care.” the waiter said, Smiling. “We don
9、t even have an air conditioner.”C.call , swim , anything , clever , bear , can , his , give , girl , something , read , take Many years ago , there was a family _1_ Franklin . They lived in Boston . There were five _2_ and six boys in the family . On a January day in 1760 , another baby boy _3_ . Th
10、ey boys mother and his father _4_ the boy a name Benjamin . Benjamin was the _5_ of all the children . He could read when he was five and he _6_ write by the time he was seven . When he was eight he was sent to school . In school Benjamin had been good at _7_ and writing but not good at maths . He r
11、ead all of _8_ fathers books . And whenever （每当）he had a little money , he bought a book with it . He liked books . They told him how to do _9_ . At that time he invented the paddles （脚蹼）for _10_ .D：need , animal , I , put , make , except , find , end , look , since , little , enough Let me tell you
12、 a story . A good friend of _1_ lives with six hundred animals on an island . Ever _2_ he left school , he has travelled all over the world _3_ for animals for his own zoo . He writes books about his travels , and about his wonderful _4_ . The money for his books helps him to pay for all the animal
13、food . My friend told me that when he was looking for water last week (There is not enough water on the island , though there is a lot all around it ) , he _5_ oil （石油） . He _6_ money for his travels and for his zoo , and a little oil would buy _7_ water for a long time , but he knows that if he tel
14、ls anybody else about it , it will be the _8_ of his zoo and his lifes work . So I think he will not tell anybody _9_ you and me about what he found because oil and water cant _10_ together . Oil may bring greater trouble to his animals than not having enough water . Do you think so ?E：Leaf, then ,l
15、arge ,learn ,ones, grow ,Thick ,has, mean ,first, easy ,begin . Everybody loves oranges .They are sweet and juicy. Theyre in sections, so it is 1 to eat them. Some or anges do not have any seeds. Some have a 2 skin, and some have a thin skin. The orange tree is beautiful .It has a lot of shiny green
16、 3 The small white flowers smell very sweet. An orange tree 4 flowers and fruit at the same time. There were orange trees twenty million years ago .The oranges were very small, not like the 5 today. The orange tree probably came from China. Many different kinds of wild oranges 6 in China today. The
17、Chinese started to raise(栽培) orange treees about 4,400 years ago. Farmers in other parts of Asia and the Middle East 7 to raise oranges from the chinese . 8 they taught Europeans. The Spainish planted orange trees in the New Wold (North and South America). They took them to Florida 9 . Oranges are a
18、 very important crop in Florida Today. In English, orange 10 both a fruit and a color. We use the name of the fruit for the color.KEY：A. live quiet not tired enjoy small dinner walk Behind interesting B： 1. things 2. giving 3. First 4. felt 5. turn 6. nearly 7. helpful 8. him 9. else 10. Waiter C： 1
19、. called 2. girls 3. was born 4. gave 5. cleverest 6. could 7. reading 8. his 9. something 10. Swimming D： 1. mine 2. since 3. looking 4. animals 5. found 6. needs 7. enough 8. end 9. except 10. be put E： 1. easy 2. thick. 3. leaves 4. has. 5.ones. 6.grow. 7. learnedlearnt 8.Then 9.first . 10.means.
20、( 1 )well , soft, second ,better , may , strongly, afraid, sand , stay up, if, now, house We cant stop an earthquake(地震), but we can do things to make sure they dont destroy(毁坏) whole cities. First, it is not a 1 ._ idea to build houses along lines where 2. _ of the earths plates(板块) join together.
21、Second, if you think there 3. _ be an earthquake, it is better to build houses on rocks , not on 4. _. Third, you must make the houses as 5. _ as possible. Weak buildings will fall down in an earthquake, but strong ones may 6. _ . . Scientists are 7. _ that one day an even bigger earthquake will hit
22、 the part around San Francisco(旧金山) . They call it “ The Big One ”. However, people today are still building more 8. _ . The population in and around San Francisco is 9. _ ten times more than it was in 1906. This means that 10. _ there is another earthquake, a great many houses and buildings will be
23、 destroyed.( 2 )forget, bring，mend，beside，luck，pick，same，differently, I ，every , stop，each Mr. Brown had an umbrella shop in a small town. People sometimes 1 _ him broken umbrellas, and then he took them to a big shop in London. They were 2 _ there. One day Mr. Brown went to London by train. He 3 _
24、to take an umbrella with him that day. Sitting in front of him was a man with an umbrella standing 4 _ the seat. When the train arrived in London, Mr. Brown 5 _ up the umbrella as he often did during his journey by train. Just as he was getting off, he was 6 _ by the man. He said angrily, “Thats 7_
25、!” Mr. Brown s face turned red and he gave it back to the man at once. When Mr Brown got to the big shop, the shopkeeper had got his six umbrellas ready. After a good look at 8 _ of them, he said, “Youve mended them very well.” In the afternoon he got into the train again. The 9 _ man was in the sam
26、e seat. He looked at Mr Brown and his six umbrellas, “Youve had a 10 _ day,” he said.( 3 )not speak, call , idea, and, what, garden, hear , quiet , do ,eat , name, say A farmer saw an old man growing something on the other side of the river. The farmer 1. _ out to him, “ What are you growing , Grand
27、pa? ” The old man 2 . _ for a moment, then said, “Swim over 3. _ Ill tell you.” The farmer didnt like the 4. _ of swimming across the river. But he wanted to know 5. _ the old man was doing. He swam over. The old man said very 6. _ in his ear, “ Im planting peas in my 7. _ .” “ You should have shout
28、ed. I would have 8. _ quite clearly on that side.” Said the farmer. “ Oh, no, I wouldnt 9. _ that . The sparrows would have heard me and 10. _ my peas.”( 4 )telephone , for, lose, so, strong, clever, somebody, good, happy, outside, everybody, at Mrs Andrews had a young cat, and it was the cats first
29、 winter. One evening it was 1._ when it began to snow heavily. Mrs Andrews looked 2. _it everywhere and shouted its name, but she did not find it, 3. _ she telephone the police and said, “ I have 4. _ a small black cat. Has 5. _ found one? ”“ No，madam, ” said the policeman at the other end, “ But ca
30、ts are really very 6. _ animals. They sometimes live for days in the snow, and when it melts (融化) or somebody finds them, they are quite 7. _ .” Mrs Andrews felt 8. _ when she heard this. “ And ,” she said, “ Our cat is very 9. _. She almost talks. ”The policeman was getting tired, “Well then, ” he
31、said “ Why dont you put your 10._ down? Maybe she is trying to telephone you now. ”( 5 ) tell, hear, listen to , guard, drum, much, fly , army, with, other, way , instruction Here are some old ways to sending messages. An Egyptian(埃及人) put his ear to the ground. He 1 . _ the horses coming this way.
32、He ran to 2. _ his people . He was a 3. _ . That was one way for Egyptians to send messages.People in 4._ countries sent message, too. When enemies came, one man beat his drum. In the next village people heard the drum and beat their drums, too. The messages went from village to village by 5._ .Much
33、 6. _ , some armies (军队) kept many pigeons(鸽子) . These pigeons always 7. _ back. When a soldier was sent far away from his own 8. _ , he might take a pigeon along. He could tie a message to the birds leg. It would fly back 9. _ the soldiers message.These are shown ways to send messages. Can you thin
34、k of more 10. _?( 6 ) before, discover , fast, in, come, watch , so, fastly, it, ago , shine, not can Light 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 ide
35、a 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 toni
36、ght started to travel to you four years 7. _ at a speed of nearly two million kilometers every minute. The light from some of tonights 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 sa
37、y, “ The stars look nice. They were 10. _ four years ago but their light has just reached our earth. ” ( 7 )happy, interest, problem, never, get away, eye, run , tire, have, miss ,catch, think A man was sitting in the doctors office. He was telling the doctor about his 1 . _ . “I like football, Doct
38、or.” 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 cant even 4._ from it in my sleep. When I close my 5._, Im out there in the football field and 6. _ after a flying ball. When I wake up, Im more 7. _than I was before
39、 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.” “
40、Are you crazy (疯了) ?” the man shouted, “ Ill 10. _ the ball !”( 8 )other, move, enough, find ,desert, make, use , another, friend , carry , trouble, friend You 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.
41、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.T
42、he 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 peop
43、le are very 9. _. No man in the desert would ever refuse to help the people in 10._ and give them food and water.( 9 )how, they ,winter, summer spend, care , dance , take, show , open , only, good The world of the out-of doors is full of secrets. And 1. _ are so interesting that quite a lot of peopl
44、e are busy studying them. All around us are birds, animals, trees and flowers. The facts about 2._ they live and grow are as interesting as anything could be.Do you know that one of the great presidents of the United States 3 _ hours and hours studying birds? A businessman who lives near New York Ci
45、ty became so interested in insects(昆虫) that he began to collect them. He now has more than one thousand different kinds 4. _ kept in the glass boxes.Come then with me, and I will help you find some of Natures secrets. Let us go quietly through the woods and fields. Here we shall find how a rabbit te
46、lls the other rabbits that there is danger. We shall follow a mother bear and her young ones as they search for food and get ready for 5. _ sleep. We shall watch bees 6. _ in the air to let other bees know where they can find food. I will 7._ you many other interesting things, but the 8. _ thing that I can teach you is to keep your ey
