期中题型专练-完形填空 2023-2024学年沪教牛津版（广州沈阳通用）八年级英语下册

期中题型专练-完形填空- 2023-2024学年 八年级英语下册 牛津深圳版 I don’t usually keep houseplants. But after I got brain cancer (癌症), with more than a year to live, I 1 the idea of having something new and green around.     My friend gave me a lucky bamboo plant. We placed it in the living room where I 2 much of the day. Looking after the plant gave me a sense of success when I sometimes felt 3 because I couldn’t do things by myself easily. As a doctor, I was used to being the one who provided 4 , not the one who received it. Because of my illness, I had to depend on help from others. Watering the plants taught me I could still be a caregiver. Plants and people could still 5 me. Both the plant and I were living happily.     After some months, the leaves started dropping to the floor. “I can’t even care for a (n) 6 plant! If my lucky bamboo dies, I might die too. “I cried. Then I realized I 7 connected my careful watering of the plant (I could have some control) with my own life (I had no 8 ). It was my mistake! Plants have no connection with my life.     My friend came to help the plant. When it was back in the sunny window, we both began to live 9 again.     Whenever I looked at the tree, I think of my friends who have cared for and supported me. If the plant outlives me, I hope it will comfort my wife and 10 her that our large community will continue to nurture (赡养) her after I am gone. 1．A．rejected B．loved C．suffered D．hated 2．A．spent B．wasted C．paid D．cost 3．A．useful B．healthy C．useless D．bored 4．A．ability B．joy C．message D．care 5．A．depend on B．decide on C．look after D．look for 6．A．difficult B．simple C．lonely D．endangered 7．A．correctly B．happily C．wrongly D．comfortably 8．A．impression B．control C．communication D．illness 9．A．badly B．differently C．seriously D．happily 10．A．remind B．raise C．require D．describe My parents didn’t allow me to dance, because they thought it was a girl’s 11 . But I never gav