专题05 首字母填空（期中真题速递，20篇）-2023-2024学年八年级英语下册重难点讲练全攻略（牛津上海版）

姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________ 专题05 首字母填空（期中真题速递，20篇）（原卷版） 选题说明：精选2021-2023年上海英语期中真题。 一、短文填空 （22春八年级下·上海静安·期中）Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words. How do you light up the night sky? The answer is by using electricity. But did you know that nature can glow, too? Scientists have found many glowing creatures. Most of them live in the ocean. Some use their lights to talk to each other. O 1 use them to hunt or to protect themselves. Scientists around the world are looking at this kind of light for new i 2 . In 2013, the US company Gleaux said it had created the world’s first light-producing plant. It is a genetically-modified (转基因的) plant. It can glow like a firefly. Alexander, the company’s founder, and other scientists hope that in the future, glowing plants could r 3 lamps and glowing trees could line highways. Krichevsky a 4 hopes the technology could be used in farming. Farmers could know when their crops need water or are ready to be picked if they glow. While Gleaux is working o 5 glowing plants, the French company Glowee is trying to use glowing bacteria (细菌) to light up shop windows and street signs. “Our goal is to learn the way we p 6 and use light,” said Glowee. “We want to help reduce the 19 percent of e 7 consumption (消耗量) that is used to produce light.” （22春八年级下·上海嘉定·期中）The electricity station in our community (社区) happened to be repaired last Saturday, so the workers cut off our electricity that day. We all thought that it must be a very boring day. W 8 electricity, we could do nothing. But it was just the other way around. After g 9 up in the morning, I started doing the housework myself rather than relying on the electrical machines like the vacuum cleaner. It was a little harder for me to do that job because I didn’t know how to make the dust disappear with the little rag (碎布). However, Mum t 10 me and after I got it, I felt very proud. Second, I w