教材课时练 18 第十六课时 八年级下册 Units 7～8-【智乐星中考·学考传奇】2024年山东省中考英语精练本（五四制）

一、完形填空 (2023·黑龙江绥化中考)My cousin 1 a good friend. Her name is Liu Li. She lost her arms in a car accident when she was a child. What was worse, she lost her parents 2 the age of twenty. Her elder sister, who was ten years older than her, wanted to 3 her. However, Liu Li refused 4 with her elder sister, saying that she would like to look after herself. She managed to enter college and studied very hard. Four years later, she graduated and found a job. Once she wrote in her diary, “Facing hard lives, I am very 5 . I lost my arms, 6 I still have my legs. Give me 7 more sunshine, my world will be even warmer.” Liu Li chose to face her misfortune(不幸) in a hopeful(乐观的) way. Instead of 8 sad every day, she decided not to let it hold her back. While she 9 difficulties, she was brave. She has taught us a good lesson. Whenever something bad happens to us, we have two choices. One is to complain(抱怨), and the other is to face it wisely. We must 10 it. 1．A.has B．have C．there is 2．A.in B．on C．at 3．A.take care B．care of C．take care of 4．A.live B．to live C．living 5．A.activity B．active C．actively 6．A.and B．or C．but 7．A.some B．any C．no 8．A.feel B．feeling C．to feel 9．A.overcome B．to overcome C．was overcoming 10．A.beat B．beating C．to beat 二、阅读理解 (2023·浙江丽水中考)When Drew Mascotti graduated from high school, he got a job delivering(送) pizzas. But soon he realized that it wasn't what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. So he took a night class at a local tech school to see if welding(焊接)—which joins two metals together with heat—was a skill that “was going to stick”． It did. Mascotti wanted to learn everything about welding and decided he'd make welding his career. But one night class wouldn't be enough. Mascotti went to Hobart Welding School in Ohio for real, technical training. Besides welding courses, Mascotti also took classes in subjects like metallurgy—the study of metal—and reading blueprints. He became more certain that he would stick to