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人教新目标初中英语
八年级下册期中复习选词填空专项练习
一、请先阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后用方框中所给词的适当形式填空,每个词限用一次。
well, because, from, great, talk, life, classmate, win, everything, hardly, speak
When I was 14, I was too nervous 1. to anyone. My classmates often laughed at me. I was sad but could do nothing. Later, something happened and it changed my 2.. It was an English speech contest (演讲比赛). My mother asked me to take part in it. It meant I had to 3. in front of all the teachers and students of my school. I didn’t look forward to that at first, 4. I was afraid I would perform badly.
“Come on, boy! Believe in yourself, you are sure to 5.,” my mother said. At last I chose the topic “Believe in yourself”. I remembered all the speech and practised it over 100 times. With my mother’s 6. love, I did well in the contest. I could 7. believe my ears when the news came that I had won the first place. I heard the wishes 8. the teachers and students. Those 9. who once looked down on me all said “Congratulations (祝贺)!” to me.
Since then, 10. has changed for me. When I do anything, I try to tell myself to believe in myself and I will do 11. than before. This is true not only for a person but also for a country.
二、从方框中选择恰当的词并用其正确形式填空。
serious/ teach/ one/ medicine/ play with
Hospitals have not always been clean, quiet places. Long ago they were dirty and overcrowded. Nurses were never 12. how to look after their patients and many people died. This is the story of Florence Nightingale, who changed all this.
Florence was born in 1820. Growing up, she was a quiet and 13. young girl. She spent a lot of time 14. her dolls. She would pretend (假装) that the dolls were sick and she was their nurse. People would bring sick or hurt animals to her to look after. She often went with her mother to visit the poor people. They took food and 15. to the sick. These visits 16. gave her the idea of becoming a nurse.
二、从方框中选择恰当的词并用其适当形式填空。
ask/ good/ where/ special/ make sure
Her chance came in 1854 when Britain went to war with Rus