专题05 选词填空20篇（江苏专用）-2023-2024学年八年级英语期末总复习高分突破

专题05 选词填空20篇（期中期末真题精选） 一、短文选词填空 （2023上·江苏常州·八年级常州市清潭中学校考期中） when  like  they  time  but  reason  the  by  quick  use Why does your dog shake (摇动，抖动) 1 it’s all wet? Of course, it isn’t because it tries to get you and your homework wet. There is another 2 for it. In an article, Andrew Dickerson and others at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the US do some research on it. They record the shaking characteristics (特点) of 33 animals, including five kinds of dogs. Mammals (哺乳动物) save a large amount of energy (能量) 3 shaking to make their bodies dry. If they do not shake, animals have to 4 about 20 percent of their daily energy to dry their bodies. And nearly all furry mammals shake to dry 5 . Those that shake only part of their body, 6 kangaroos (袋鼠), usually live in the places where staying dry isn’t very hard. But not all animals shake at 7 same rate (频率). Smaller animals seem to shake more 8 . A mouse shakes thirty 9 per second, but bears, tigers and big dogs shake only about four. Dickerson and his team found that these animals do this job as efficiently as they can. In each case, the animals shake off about 70 percent of the water on their bodies in seconds. For us, to dry our hair, it takes us not seconds, 10 minutes! （2023上·江苏盐城·八年级东台市三仓镇中学校联考期中）阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的单词并用其适当形式填空，使短文通顺，意思完整，每词限用一次。 furniture  how  DIY  number  around  like  they  store  make  many 11 is quite popular in the UK. Lots of 12 and supermarkets sell DIY things. TV programmes (节目) show people 13 to DIY. English people 14 DIY. There is a saying in the UK —“An Englishman’s home is his castle”. Huge 15 of people spend their holiday 16 their homes beautiful “castles”. If there is anything that needs fixing 17 their homes, such as painting the walls or putting in a new shower, they will do the jobs 18 . They share DIY experience with their