八年级上册英语短文填空(10篇).doc

八年级上册英语短文填空(10篇)
（一）
　　Every year students in many countries learn English. Some of these students are children. 1_________ are young people. Some learn at 2__________ , others teach themselves. Why do all these people want to 3_________ (learn) English? It is hard to answer that question.
Many boys and girls learn English at school because it is 4________ of their subjects. Many people learn English 5__________ it is useful in their work. Some young people learn English 6______ their higher studies because some of their books 7______(be) in English at college（学院）or university（大学）. 8____ people learn English because they want to 9________(read )newspapers and magazines（杂志）in 10_________.
（一）
1. Others 2. school 3. learn 4. one 5. because 6. for 7. are
8. Other 9. read 10. English

（二）
　　In England, afternoon tea is 1_______ most informal (非正式) meal of a day. It is taken 2__________ four and five. If you are a friend of the family, you may come for tea 3_______ any time. Very often it is not taken at a table. The members 4______ the family and visitors take the tea in the sitting room. Each person 5________(have) a cup and saucer 茶盘), a spoon (调羹)6________ a small plate for bread and butter (黄油) and cakes. 7_______ the way, do not help 8___________ to cakes first, bread and butter first, and then cake. Do remember: Though you can eat as 9_________ as you want, do not put more 10________ one piece of bread or cake on your plate each time.

（二）
1. the 2. between 3. at 4. of 5. has 6. and 7. By 8. yourself
9. much 10. than

(三） How Much Is It
　　Mrs Wilson likes to ask his husband 1_______(go) shopping with her on Sundays. Her husband pays for the things that she 2________(buy). Now they are in a shop.
　　"Look, Andy. Is it a fancy hair clip?" Mrs Wilson asks his husband.
　　"All right. And how 3________ is it?" he answers and gives money to the shop assistant. 4__________ Mrs Wilson asks him about something good or 5_________, he often says "All right. And how much is it?" to her.
　　6______ about 8 o'clock p.m., Andy is tired and thirsty, 7________ he wants to have a drink. Suddenly (突然地) his wife looks 8______ at the moon and says, "Look, Andy. Is the 9_______ so beautiful?"
　　"All right. And how much is it?" his husband answers 10__________ (quick).
(三）1. to go 2. buys 3. much 4. When 5. bad 6. At 7. and 8. up
9. moon 10. quickly
（四）
I went to bed at 10 and 1_________（sleep） soundly. I ________ （wake）up at 2a.m. and smelt something 3_________ (burn). I leaped out of bed and ran to the kitchen. I 4 _______ （see）nothing there: it was dark 5_______ quiet. I ran 6_______ the living room. The television was still on. I 7________ （forget）to turn it 8________ before I went to bed last night.
Smoke was rising out of the back of the set! I turned off the electricity just 9________ time, but the experience 10____ （keep）me awake all night! I felt very worried and really
learned my lesson!
（四）
1. slept ; 2. woke ; 3.burning 4. saw ; 5. and; 6. to ; 7. forgot ; 8.off ; 9. in ; 10. kept

（五）
　　Once there lived an old man in a town. He always forgot a lot of things. So his wife always had to say to him，"Don't forget this."
　　One day he 1__________(go) on a long way alone. 2__________ he left home，his wife said，"Now you have all these things. You need them 3_________ your way. Take 4_________ of your things on the way."He went to the station. He bought a ticket and got on the train with it.
　　About an hour 5_______(late)，the conductor began to see the tickets. He came to the old man and said，"Will you please show me your 6________?"The old man 7_________(look) for his ticket in all his pockets 8_________ he could not find it. He was very worried. "I can't find my ticket. I really bought a ticket before I got on the train，"said the old man.
"I think you are right. I believe you bought a ticket. All right，you don't have to buy 9_________ ticket，"said the conductor kindly. But the old man still(仍然) looked worried and said sadly，"You don't know 10________ I'm worried. If I don't find my ticket，I can't remember my station. Where am I going? "
（五）1. went 2. Before 3. on 4. care 5. later 6. ticket 7. looked
8. but 9. another 10. why

(六）
This is a beautiful park near my home. People like 1 ________( go) to the park after work. Some 2________ them go to the park every day. Look! This is Mr. Smith. He is sitting on a chair and 3____________ (watch) the children. Some children are playing the game of hide-and- seek(捉迷藏). Some boys are playing yo-yo. Lucy and Lily are standing 4________ a tree. They are talking. There 5__be) a small river in the park. We can see some boats in the 6_______. Some children 7_________(sit) in the boats 8________ their fathers and mothers. Listen! A lot of birds are singing 9_______ the trees. This is really a nice park. I come here to read English 10________ school every day.
(六1. to go 2. of 3. watching 4. under 5. is 6. river 7. are sitting
8. with 9. in 10. after

（七）
We each have a memory(记忆力）. That’s 1 _______ we can still remember things after a long time. Some people have very good memories and they can easily learn many things 2______ heart, but some people can only remember things when they say or do 3________ again and again. Many of the great men of the world have got 4_____________(surprise) memories.
A good memory is a great help in learning languages. Everybody learns his mother 5____________ when he is a small child. He hears the sounds, 6____________(remember) them and then he learns to speak. Some children are living 7_______ their parents in foreign countries. They can learn two languages as 8_________(easy) as one because they hear， remember and speak two languages every day. In school it is not so easy to learn a foreign language 9_________ the pupils have so little time for it, and they are 10_______ with other subjects, too.
But your memory will become better and better when you do more and more exercises.
（七） 1. why 2. by 3. them 4. surprising 5.language 6. remembers 7. with
8. easily 9. because 10. busy

（八）
Mr. Smith had two sons .One is seven years old, and the other is five. One morning during the holidays, when he was cleaning the car, his younger son came and asked him for some money for sweets.
“Sweets are bad for your teeth,” Mr. Smith said. “Take these two oranges instead ,and give one to your elder(年长的)brother,” One of the oranges is quite a lot bigger than the other one ,and as the small boy liked oranges very much, he kept that one for himself, and gave his brother the smaller one.
When the other boy saw that his brother had a much larger orange than his own ,he said to him, “It’s selfish(自私的)to take the bigger one for yourself. If father had given me the oranges, I ’d have given you the bigger one.”
“I know you would,” answered his brother.” That’s why I took it.”

（九）
You may know the song Happy Birthday very well. But do you know who wrote this song and for whom it was written?
Let me tell you a story.
About one hundred years ago, there was a girl in the USA. She loved children very much and wrote many songs for children. One of them was the song Good Morning To You. The song was very popular at that time among children, but not all grown-ups ( 成年人 ) knew it.
The girl was very poor. Once her friends invited her to a little child’s birthday party. She felt happy but sad because she had no money to buy a present for him. Finally she decided to sing the song Happy Birthday in the melody( 曲调 ) of Good Morning to You for the little boy.
When her friends heard the song at the party, they were very happy. “How wonderfully she is singing! We have not heard this song before. It’s a special present,” said someone. And they learned to sing it together.
Later, the song became very popular throughout the world. People like it because it’s simple and friendly.

（十）
Most American businesses are open five days a week. American school children go to school five days a week, too. American families usually have a two-day weekend. The weekend is Saturday and Sunday. Over the weekend, people spend their time in may ways. Many families enjoy weekend together. They may go shopping, go for a drive, or visit friends. They may also invite friends over and have a party at home. Many families take part in sport during the weekend. Running, hiking, playing volleyball and swimming are popular in summer. Skiing and skating are the favorite winter sports. Weekends are also a time for American families to work on something in their yards or in the house. Many families plant flowers and have vegetable gardens. Some families spend the weekends to paint or repair their houses. For most Americans, weekend are very busy.

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