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Unit 1 Know yourself
单元话题语法填空练习
(2023春·江苏徐州·九年级校考阶段练习)DIY sounds easy. But it is easier said than done.
I ____1____ (attend) some lessons in DIY last month. I thought that maybe I could try DIY. So last weekend, I tried ____2____ (decorate) my study. I told ____3____ (I) that my excellent job would surprise my parents. But sadly, I just kept ____4____ (make) mistakes. I just made the study a mess. My first DIY job was like a bad dream.
Do you know what the ____5____ (mistake) were? First of all, I hit my fingers while I was pushing a nail (钉子). It really ____6____ (hurt). And then, I knocked the shelf down. There were books everywhere! I even broke two glasses on the desk. It took me an hour ____7____ (put) up a shelf on the wall. But one end of it was 10cm ____8____ (high) than the other.
I did make my parents ____9____ (surprise). They never expected I could make such a mess. But they were not angry. “Everything is hard before it ____10____ (get) easy,” they said.
(2022春·江苏宿迁·九年级统考期中)根据短文内容,用括号内所给词的正确时态或形式填空使短文完整。
When I was 15, I told my class that I was going to write my own book. Half the students ____11____ (laugh) at me, “Don’t be silly. Only geniuses (天才) can become writers.” My English teacher said to me, “It is an ____12____ (possible) dream.” I was very sad. That night I wrote a poem about ____13____ (break) dreams and sent it to a newspaper. To my surprise, they published it, and sent me two dollars. How ____14____ (excite) I was! I sent it to my teacher and friends. “Just luck,” they said. However, I ____15____ (continue). I never gave up. By the time I ____16____ (finish) high school, I had published a number of articles. Years later, I ____17____ (decide) to write a book, Crying Wind. It took nine months. Then I sent it to a publishing house. A month later, they called me and said they would ____18____ (publish) it. Crying Wind became a best-seller and it made me famous. Now I have ____19____ (write) several books. Many people asked me what made