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八年级上册Unit 5
一、 根据对话内容,从方框内选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。
A: Hi, Bill!
B: Hi, Mary! 1.
A: To the school library.
B: I’m also going there. 2.
A: OK. Do you want to borrow books?
B: No. I want to study there. 3.
A: I want to borrow some books on nature.
B: 4.
B
A
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A: Yes. And I’m going to learn about the protection of the ecological(生态的) balance and then report on it to my classmates tomorrow.
B: That’s a good topic. 5.
A: I hope so. I think it’s our duty to protect the Earth.
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A. Let’s go together.
B. Where are you going?
C. Are you interested in nature?
D. What are you planning to do there?
E. Your classmates will know more about it.
二、 完形填空。
It was a beautiful morning with a soft wind blowing. Gina the giraffe was walking on the grass. A group of zebras ran 1 . Gina looked at them and thought, “Zebras take such 2 leaps. How easily they run! Look at my 3 —it is so strange-looking.”
Then she saw an elephant by the lake. “The elephant takes water in her long nose and sprays(喷洒) it everywhere. She has so much fun. 4 I had a long nose, I would become happy like her,” Gina thought.
Just then a crow came and sat on Gina’s head. “Why are you so 5 ?”
Gina stood there with a sad face and said, “They all look so good, but I am so 6 .” “Gina, why do you think so? You 7 your own strengths, don’t you?” said the crow.
At that moment, a 8 came and said to Gina, “Gina, I need your 9 ! My kid has climbed up a tree. Will you bring him down?”
“Of course!” Gina stretched her long neck up and 10 brought the young lion down from the tree.
“So much joy in helping! Did you 11 helping someone, Gina?” asked the crow.
“It really feels very nice. Now I have understood how 12 it is to have legs like long sticks and a long neck. I shouldn’t consider them as my weaknesses. Instead, I can 13 them into my strengths.”
“Yes, instead of feeling sad by comparing 14 with others, you should make the most of what you have and be happy. In this way,