牛津英语译林版 8上 英语阅读专项训练（含教师版）18

8上 英语阅读专项训练 18 一、完形填空 There was once a little grey planet. It was very sad. People there had all the inventions and spaceships they could ever need, ___1___ they didn’t look after the planet well. The whole planet was very ___2___ . It was full of so much rubbish and pollution ___3___ there were no plants or animals left. One day, a little boy was walking on the planet. When he passed a cave, he noticed a small red flower inside. The flower was very ___4___ —almost dying. So the boy carefully ___5___ up the flower, with roots, soil and everything. Then, he started looking ___6___ a good place where he could look after it. He ___7___ all over the planet, but there wasn’t ___8___ for the flower to live. Then, he looked up at the sky and noticed the ___9___ . It seemed to the boy that the plant could live there. So the little boy ___10___ his astronaut suit, and climbed into a spaceship. He took the flower with him and ___11___ to the moon. Far away from all the ___12___ , and with the boy looking after it every day, the flower started to grow, giving birth to ___13___ . And these other flowers gave birth to other flowers. Before long, the whole moon was completely ___14___ with flowers. That’s why, whenever the little boy’s flower opens up, for a few minutes the moon takes on a soft red light, like a ___15___ light. It’s telling us that if we don’t look after our planet, a day will come when flowers will only be able to grow on the moon. 1. A. because B. when C. if D. but 2. A. big B. small C. clean D. dirty 3. A. that B. until C. when D. after 4. A. lovely B. sick C. beautiful D. fresh 5. A. picked B. broke C. dug D. grew 6. A. after B. like C. at D. for 7. A. searched B. expressed C. returned D. trained 8. A. somewhere B. anywhere C. nowhere D. everywhere 9. A. star B. sun C. space D. moon 10. A. put away B. put up C. put on D. put down 11. A. flew B. walked C. drove D. sailed 12. A. sunshine B. field C. water D. pollution 13. A. others