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2023学年第二学期百基作业反馈八年级英语试卷
满分: 100分 考试时间: 80分钟
一、完形填空 (本题有15小题, 每小题1分, 共计15分)
阅读下面的短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
If a friend does a big favour for us, it’s a good idea to write them a thank-you ___1___. But how many of us actually ___2___ to do this?
“People don’t appear to walk around giving thanks to people quite ___3___.” Amit Kumar from University of Texas said. Why aren’t people sure or active about sending thank-you notes? And how do people ___4___ when they receive one?
Kumar and his team asked their ___5___ to write a thank-you note to another person by email. Then, they asked both the ___6___ and the receiver how sending or receiving these notes made them feel.
They found that the students didn’t like to write the notes ___7___ they felt like they had to think too much about them. They worried about ___8___ to say and how to say it.
The receivers, however, ___9___ the notes. “When you are a receiver, you pay more attention to the warmth of the note,” Kumar says. “How moving was it? How friendly and ___10___?”
The writers also thought it ___11___ be awkward (尴尬的) for the receiver to get a thank-you note. But it was not what ___12___ imagined.
“They (receivers) feel quite happy,” Kumar says. “They don’t really feel awkward at all.”
“___13___ people knew that writing a thank-you note could have such a big impact (影响) on others, they would do it ___14___ often,” Kumar says.
“Simple, small changes in our everyday lives can make a big ___15___ in how we treat other people and how we feel,” he says.
1.
A. note B. story C. song D. post
2.
A. ask for B. warm up C. stand up D. sit down
3.
A. late B. often C. early D. hard
4.
A know B. sound C. feel D. look
5.
A. families B. teachers C. friends D. students
6.
A. writer B. teacher C. listener D. speaker
7.
A. but B. because C. so D. if
8.
A who B. when C. what D. where
9.
A. understood B. enjoyed C. remembered D. read
10.
A. sad B. interesting C. warm D. boring
11.
A. might B. should C. n