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Unit 4 Why don’t you talk to your parents?
单元话题语法填空练习
(2023上·广东深圳·八年级统考期末)阅读下面短文,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。
As we all know, it is often difficult for a mom to clear up after working for a day. So an 1 (Australia)mother came up with a new way to solve the problem. She put money under the rubbish around the house, 2 (include)toilet paper and pieces of paper on the floor.
When the money wasn’t taken away, she added the prize money. She said that anyone who lent 3 helping hand could get some money. Unluckily, none of the other family members joined 4 the litter picking, so the mom had to take back her own money.
The mom posted the idea on Facebook with a photo of the toilet paper. She wrote online, “Needing something to encourage kids and husbands 5 (tidy)up around the house? Clearly this game 6 (not work)yet, maybe one day. For now, I’ll keep 7 (raise)the prize money, knowing it’s coming back.”
One said, “My kids would 8 (probable)pick it up, take the money, throw it back on the floor and forget about the whole thing.” A second replied, “No one will pick it up even if it saves 9 (they)life.” Another mom left a large sign to everyone else living in the home and read, “Put your clothes away, 10 I’ll beat you. Love you, Mom.”
(2023下·湖南长沙·八年级统考期中)阅读下面短文,在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Nowadays, we can see some boys and girls who live in a small world of their own. They bury themselves among books and games. Therefore more and more Chinese 11 (teenager) find that life is difficult without their parents. They don’t know how to do chores because their parents do almost everything for them at home. This is 12 big problem.
Alice is 14 years old. One day her parents went away on business for a week, so she had 13 (stay) at home alone for a week. At first, she thought she would be happy because her parents were not in. She could do everything that she liked. But after one day, on the afternoon of the