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Unit 1 Past and present.
单元话题短文首字母填空
(2021·江苏盐城·八年级期中)根据短文内容及首字母提示,填写所缺的单词。答题卡上需填写完整的单词。
In the past few years, great changes have taken place around us.
The roads u____1____ to be narrow and crowded (拥挤的). The houses were old and small. There was r____2____ everywhere. And the air wasn’t f____3____ enough. There was a paper factory near our school. They often put the waste into the river. Water p____4____ was also a big problem.
Nowadays, our living c____5____ have improved a lot. The roads are w____6____ and clean. It’s really easy for people to go out. We can choose different t____7____ of transport to go anywhere. The government has also built many tall buildings. Most of us have m____8____ into big beautiful houses. The sky is blue and the cloud is white. The birds are singing h____9____. Our hometown looks like a big garden w_____10_____ green trees and colorful flowers.
Our country is becoming richer and stronger. We are living a happy life.
(2021·江苏·镇江市外国语学校八年级单元测试)根据短文内容及所给首字母提示,写出所缺单词,使短文完整、通顺。
Ricky lived in a small town with his family. People in the town lived an easy life. Children went to school every day, and parents went to w______11______ at the town’s factory. No one asked any strange questions.
But Ricky was d______12______ from other children. He did not want to go to school. He wanted to work and h______13______ his family. He did not want to work at the town’s factory. He wanted to open his o______14______ store. And he always asked some s______15______ questions.
Everyone laughed at Ricky, but his friend David n______16______ did. David thought that Ricky was a person with many good i______17______. Although (虽然) David didn’t always agree with Ricky, he respected (尊重) him.
With the help of his father, Ricky opened his first s______18______. Ricky worked hard and later he had many stores. He was a successful man and m______19______ to a big city.
Ricky sometimes went back to his hometown. When he went back there, he always remembered to v__