Unit1 Past and Present 单元提优卷牛津译林版苏州市2023-2024学年八年级下册英语

8B Unit1 Past and Present 单元提优卷 (总分：100分) 一、完形填空(每小题l分，满分1分) As I get older, I become more nostalgic(思乡的) for my hometown. As times change, people 1 and move on with their lives. It's hard not to miss the happier days when we were a child. However, when I returned to the town, it was sad seeing 2 different my hometown has become since the nuclear accident(核事故). I 3 there's no sense living in the past, but whenever I think about how wonderful it used to be, my eyes would fill with tears. As a kid I used to love walking downtown; back then the place was busy, full of many kinds of stores, 4 faces and fun things to do. But these days the town is mostly quiet and lonely with few people walking in a hurry. I knew the name of every kid on my block when I was young. We 5 spend our summer days biking around the neighbourhood together or playing down by the pond. But nowadays it's 6 for me to even recognize(认出) the boys. Most of them have gone bald (秃头), or put on some weight, or had their faces and hands 7 in thick scars(伤疤). Whenever you run into people on the street, it seems like they don't 8 or say hello like they used to. I've changed a lot too. I went off to college, got married, and even had two kids of my own. Of course，once the food and water have been 9 by the nuclear accident, everything would not stay the same. I knew that. But I still felt sad because it happened in my town. Honestly, I wonder sometimes why I go back home at all. Why waste so much of my time missing a place that has gone away? After all, our lives are 10 , but the half-life of uranium-233 (铀-233)is very, very long. ( )1. A. grow up B. pull up C. dress up D. hurry up ( )2. A. where B. what C. why D. how ( )3. A. feel B. agree C. realize D. worry ( )4. A. lonely B. friendly C. beautiful D. tired ( )5. A. had to B.