专题03 完形填空15篇（名校最新期末真题）-2022-2023学年八年级英语上学期期末复习查缺补漏冲刺满分（仁爱科普版）

仁爱版八年级上学期期末复习 查缺补漏冲刺满分 (名校最新期末真题) 专题03 完形填空15篇 （2022·福建省福州延安中学八年级期末）阅读下面短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C三个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。 Dogs bury bones. Squirrels gather nuts to last through the winter. Camels（骆驼）store food and water so that they can travel many days across ___1___. But do pigs save anything? No, pigs save nothing. So ___2___ do we save coins in a piggy bank? Because someone made a mistake. During the Middle Ages, in about the 15th century, metal was ___3___ so dishes and pots were made of a kind of cheap clay called pygg. Whenever housewives could save a ___4___, they dropped it into one of their clay jars（罐）. They call this their pygg bank or pyggy bank. Around the 18th century, the spelling of pygg changed. The word ___5___ the same as the word for the animal pig. Over the following 200 to 300 years, people ___6___ that pygg meant the clay. And the term “pygg jar” gradually changed into pig bank, ___7___ piggy bank. In the 19th century, when English potters（制陶工人）received requests for piggy