期末专项训练首字母填空2023-2024学年牛津译林版英语八年级上册

八上 首字母专项训练（中难·难） （一） Scientists have long wondered how Australia's koalas get enough water to live. A new study p____1____ an answer. The lead writer of the new report on koalas is Valentina Mella of the University of Sydney. It was the earlier i____2____, she explains, that the animals got most of the water they needed in the leaves they ate. In the wild, koalas get water from the plant leaves they eat. But they also get it from water r____3____ down from the trees when it rains. Mella and other scientists w____4____ koalas in the wild every year. They find that koalas are a____5____ at night. They live in trees and depend on them for food, drinking and also for resting places. Koalas spend most of the time high up in the trees. They eat lots of leaves. An adult koala normally eats b____6____ 0. 5 and 0.8 kg of leaves a day. Koalas sleep about 20 hours a day. Mella notes that a koala usually spends 98% of its l____7____ in trees. She also notes that the only time they come down to the ground is to discover another tree with b____8____ leaves. In fact, the word “koala” means “no drink” in the l____9____ language. Koalas did not go down onto the ground very often. So it was considered that they had no n____10____ to drink water. The koalas’ living environment is getting worse now because the recent fires in Australia have burned about 30% of the forests where they live. 1.___________ 2.___________ 3.___________ 4.___________ 5.___________ 6.___________ 7.___________ 8.___________ 9.___________ 10.___________ provides idea running watch active between life better local need （二） In old days, Chinese people got a way of writing that used pictures i______1______ of words. When the Chinese wanted to write something that meant “bird”, they d______2______ a picture of a bird. As time went by, many pictures stopped l_____3_____ like the things they stood for as the pictures got much simpler. These simplified p______4______ are now