Unit 5 单元话题短文首字母填空练习-2022-2023学年八年级英语下册单元重难点易错题精练（牛津上海版）

Unit 5 Magazine articles 单元短文首字母填空练习 （2022春·上海·八年级统考期中）在短文的空格内填 入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给。 Sometimes we forget that many things we use every day were not always there. They had to be invented. Someone had to have an idea. Then they had to do a lot of experiments with the idea until it worked well. Here are few you might like to read about: In Maine, the northeast of the U. S., winters are long, windy and cold. Every winter, Chester Greenwood’s ears got so cold that they turned colors. When he was 15, Chester got ice skates for his birthday. He wanted to go skating. The cold wind and his frozen ears soon sent him running home. The next day, Chester tied a scarf around his ears. It was w___1___, but too uncomfortable. Then he got a GREAT IDEA．Chester made two oval loops out of wire. He asked his grandmother to sew covers on the ovals. Then she connected the ovals with another wire. The ovals fit over his ears. Chester had invented earmuffs! They saved his ears and made him rich. People in Maine found another way to r___2___ Chester. December 21st , the first of winter, is Chester Greenwood Day. Sometimes inventions happen by chance. As a boy, Thomas Alva Edison was called Al. When he was 12 years old, he got his first j___3___. He sold newspaper and candy on the train.  One day on the job, he bravely s___4___ a boy from being run over by a train. The boy’s father worked a telegraph. Al asked how to run a telegraph. Not only did Al learn the telegraph, but he made a better one. It was one of his earliest GREAT IDEAS. Edison’s new telegraph made a lot of money. Later, he became the first person to o___5___ and run an inventions business. He was good at that, too. We could thank Thomas Edison every day. He had many, many GREAT IDEAS such as bulbs, movie cameras, and batteries. Edison is the one who invented more things than a___6___ else in the world. So, who knows? You might invent something some day! （2022秋·上海徐汇·八年级上海市徐汇中学校考期中）Read the passage and fill in the blanks