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Unit 8 Natural disasters
单元话题语法填空练习
(2022上·江苏苏州·八年级校考期末)用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空。
A ten-year-old girl saved about one hundred other tourists in 2004 by warning 1 (they) that a tsunami, a huge ocean wave, was on its 2 (way) across the sea. She knew what 3 (happen) because she learned about underwater earthquakes at school only a few weeks earlier, a newspaper reported.
“I was 4 the beach and the water started to go funny,” Tilly Smith told the 5 (report) from the newspaper. “There 6 (be) bubbles and the water went back suddenly. I knew there was going to be a tsunami. I told Mum,” she said.
Tilly’s mother and the hotel workers acted 7 (quick). They cleared people from the beach just minutes 8 a huge wave reached the land. Luckily, no one died.
Tilly’s teacher was very proud 9 her. “She’s a very clever girl. It is very 10 (luck) that our class were learning about this kind of tsunami just two weeks before Christmas,” he told the newspaper.
(2022上·江苏宿迁·八年级统考期中)阅读下面的短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Last Friday a storm swept through two villages in the New Territories, destroying (摧毁) fourteen 11 (house). Seven others were so badly damaged (破坏) that their owners had to 12 (leave) them, and fifteen others had broken windows or roofs (屋顶). One person was killed, several were 13 (bad) hurt and taken to hospital, and a number of other people were hurt too. Over two 14 (hundred) people were homeless after the storm.
A farmer, Mr. Tan, said that the storm 15 (begin) early in the morning and lasted for over an hour. “I 16 (eat) with my wife and children when the storm came.” he said, “A few minutes later our house fell down. We tried our best 17 (climb) out but then I saw that one of my children was missing. I went back and found him, safe but scared.”
Mrs. Woo said that her husband had just left for work when she felt that her house was moving. She