期中题型专练-首写字母填空 2023-2024学年仁爱科普版八年级英语下册

期中题型专练-首写字母填空- 2023-2024学年 八年级英语下册 仁爱版 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的单词，单词的第一个字母已给出。 According to the Chinese lunar calendar, 2021 is the Year of the Ox. Many Chinese people believe it will be a good year. It makes them think of a strong body, good luck and a b 1 life. The ox plays an important r 2 and is a symbol of hard working in Chinese culture. The phrase “the spirit of ox” m 3 beating anything in the way. The word “laohuangniu” means those who help others and ask n 4 for themselves. Just as the Chinese writer Lu Xun once w 5 , “Cows eat grass, but give milk.” When someone gets a great achievement through hard work, people often use “niu”, meaning “wonderful’’, to d 6 him or her. In the west, people have a d 7 opinion about this animal. “Bullheaded people are very stubborn (固执的) and will not listen to advice. If you search on the Internet for the word “bull” (公牛), you’ll also f 8 other interesting English expressions. For example, if someone behaves (表现) “like a bull in a china shop”, he or she behaves in a clumsy (笨拙的) way when they should be more careful. In the year of the Ox, we h 9 that all of our students will work just as hard as the ox does. Keep away from anything that might make you as angry as “a red flag to a bull”. We hope you can always “take the bull by the horns (不畏艰险)” when you have to face a difficult s 10 . 阅读短文，根据首字母提示，在空白处填入1个适当的单词。 It’s a lovely day. Sarah is going to have a picnic in the park with her friends. She has prepared much food, some meat and some v 11 . All are the daily food in our life. But do you know where some of them came from? Chicken Chickens were once wild birds in the forest of Asia. Around 3,400 years ago, men b 12 to use chickens. But the birds were small and their meat was hard to eat. So people only k 13 chickens to fight for sport. Chocolate The seed of the cocoa tree can be made into chocolate. But 2,000 years ago, people in Central