课文-适当形式填空 2025-2026学年外研版英语八年级上册

U1 A red,red rose

I suppose everyone has something they don’t like about 1. ______ (they). For me, it was the birthmark on my face. It was bright red, the colour of a strawberry.

Sometimes, I 2. ______ (feel) people secretly looking at my face. But when I 3. ______ (turn) my head, they 4. ______ (look) away. On crowded buses and trains, it felt just like a disaster. With so many people around me, my birthmark 5. ______ (burn) red hot. Therefore, I always 6. ______ (keep) my hair long 7. ______ (cover) it until that day.

It was a cloudy morning. A new student 8. ______ (name) Maddie arrived in our class. She sat right beside me. Instead of 9. ______ (look) away, Maddie 10. ______ (study) my face. This made me so 11. ______ (nervousness). Clouds 12. ______ (come) through the window and filled my heart. Suddenly, she said something I would never forget.

“Sally, right?” she said. “You have a red rose on your face. How 13. ______ (beauty)!”

I looked up and met her 14. ______ (smile) eyes. Although I only 15. ______ (reply) “thank you”, it turned sunny in my heart. When I got home, I 16. ______ (rush) 17. ______ (介词) the bathroom and looked 18. ______ (介词) the mirror. For the first time, I could look at my birthmark without quickly turning away. The next day, to my surprise, Maddie 19. ______ (paint) a red rose on her own face!

I 20. ______ (not tell) Maddie the whole story yet. Anyway, she has changed me. I have already learnt that I am what I am. Everyone has something special and different – that is what’s interesting.

U1 Impossible-> I’m possible

“Nothing is impossible: the word itself says I’m possible.”— Audrey Hepburn, the British actress and star of the silver screen, said this. However, doubts and fears often hold us back.How can we face them and 1. ______ (success)?

The runner, Su Bingtian gives 2. ______ excellent answer to this question. The young man began his sporting life in 2006. At 3. ______ (one), he ran the 100 m race in less than that time, no one from Asia had ever run the 100 m 4. ______ (fast) than 10 seconds. Su trained hard and quickly became one of the 5. ______ (fast) runners in Asia. In 2011, he ran the race in 10.16 seconds.

However, Su wasn’t 6. ______ (satisfy). He wanted 7. ______ (run) under 10 seconds. This was a very 8.______(risk) decision. In 2014, he 9. ______ (change) his starting leg. This 10. ______ (make) him slow down. Also, he was 25 years old. At such an age, many runners choose 11.______ (stop) running.People 12. ______ (doubt) his decision. However, Su 13. ______ (fight) his fears and became a sporting hero.

In 2015, he 14. ______ (clock) 9.99 seconds and made history. In 2021, he 15. ______ (finish) in 9.83 seconds at the Tokyo Olympics. He also became the first Chinese athlete 16. ______ (reach) the 100 m final in the Olympic Games.

Su Bingtian has told younger 17. ______ (generation): Never let your age hold you back. Have a try and work 18. ______ (hard) and harder. I believe you can write your own story.“Nothing is impossible. Never 19. ______ (let) your fears stop your try and 20. ______ (stick) to it. Everyone can be a Superman!”

U2 The selfish giant

Every afternoon, the children 1. ______ (play) in the Giant's garden. It is a large garden with soft, green grass. Here and there, over the grass, 2. ______ (stand) beautiful flowers, like stars.

The Giant has 3. ______ (be) away for a long time. One day, he 4. ______ (come) back and sees the children in his garden. “What are you doing here?” he 5. ______ (shout) in a very 6. ______ (anger) voice.

The children 7. ______ (run) away. The Giant closes the gate and 8. ______ (build) a high wall around the garden. Since then, he 9. ______ (not see) a child there.

Then spring comes. But in the Giant's garden, it is still winter. There are no birds or flowers. “I cannot understand why spring 10. ______ (not come) since last year,” says the Giant. “I hope the weather 11. ______ (change) soon.”

But spring never 12. ______ (come), nor summer. Autumn gives golden fruit to every other garden. But it gives none to the 13. ______(Giant) garden.

One morning, the Giant suddenly hears birds singing. “I 14. ______ (hear) that beautiful birdsong for a while. I believe spring 15. ______ (come) at last,” The Giant jumps out of bed and 16. ______ (look) outside.

The Giant 17. ______ (see) a hole in the wall. Also, there is a little child in every tree. And the trees are so glad that they 18. ______ (cover) themselves with flowers. The birds fly about and sing with joy. “How 19. ______ (selfishness) I've been!” he says. “Now I know why spring wouldn't come here.”

He knocks down the wall. The children look 20. ______ (afraid). “Fear not, little ones,” the Giant says. “It's your garden now.”

U2 Six chi away, but closer together

Narrow lanes are very common in China. They are usually about two metres wide, or six chi in traditional Chinese units. Most of 1. ______ (they) are nothing special. But Liucixiang (Six-chi Lane) in Tongcheng, Anhui, is perhaps 2. ______ most famous one.

Its story started back 3. ______ the Qing Dynasty. Two local families, the Zhangs and the Wus, argued over the 4. ______ (divide) line between their houses. They couldn’t reach 5. ______ agreement. The Zhang family was angry. Their relative, Zhang Ying, 6. ______ (have) a position high up in the government. They wrote him a letter, asking 7. ______ advice. When his reply came, they opened it 8. ______ (find) a poem inside.

A letter from far away just 9. ______ a wall

Is not right 10. ______ good at all.

Three chi to your neighbour 11. ______ a gift

Is nothing as time continues 12. ______ (drift).

After 13. ______ (read) it, the Zhang family felt ashamed. They stepped back three chi 14. ______ their neighbour. This act deeply 15. ______ (move) the Wu family. In return, they decided 16. ______ (do) the same thing. They gave up another three chi. And so 17. ______ (come) the six-chi-wide lane between the two houses.

Hundreds of years 18. ______ (pass) since then, and the lane is still there. The people of Tongcheng still keep the poem in 19. ______ (they) mind. Whenever they walk down the lane, they remember how kindness encourages 20. ______ (much) kindness.

U3 A helping hand

Easton LaChappelle, a 14-year-old student, stood beside his work at a science fair. It was a 1. ______(robot) arm. He built it out of plastic blocks and 2. ______ (fish) line.

“Hello,” said a girl with an 3. ______ (artifice) arm, as she shook hands with Easton's work.

This was the first time Easton met Jenny, a girl with a 4. ______ (specially) condition. She was born without an

arm. Her artificial arm was just a 5. ______ (simply) hook, but it cost $80,000. What's worse, children like her grow 6. ______ (quick) and need new arms all the time.

“It blew me away! I built my arm for 7. ______ (little) than $300,” thought Easton. “I must lend a hand 8. ______ people like her.”

After the fair, Easton's room became a lab. He stayed there all day. He always tried to make 9. __________ (improve) to his work. For his 16th birthday, Easton got a 3-D printer. And with it, he invented an artificial arm. It could move with brain 10. ______ (signal) of the user. But it wasn't perfect: the arm 11. ______ (weigh) 3.6 kilograms. It was 12. ______ (difficulty) for a child to carry.

Easton kept 13. ______ (work) on it. He enjoyed fixing 14. ______ (problem) one after another. And finally he hit on 15. ______ (succeed) at age 23. His design only weighed 0.5 kilograms and 16.______ (cost) around $500!

17. ________ (Easton) invention has helped many 18. ______ (child). He didn't want to make money 19. ______  it. He decided to post his design online... for free! People can download the design and make an artificial arm 20. ______ their own 3-D printers!

U3 The power of curiosity

Albert Einstein once said, "I have no special talents. I am only 1.___________ (passionate) curious." The greatest 2.___________ (invention) in history would be impossible without 3.___________ (curious).

Curiosity can bring new 4.___________ (discovery). Benjamin Franklin is a great example. He 5 .___________(draw) to electricity and had a deep curiosity about its nature. He 6 .___________(do) lots of research to try to understand it. For example, he 7.___________ (fly) a kite during a storm. His curiosity led him to invent the lightning rod. This invention 8 .___________(protect) buildings from lightning.

Curiosity can also make people brave. Just look at Wan Hu, the Ming Dynasty 9 .___________(pioneer) of space exploration. He 10.___________ (be) so curious about space that he 11.___________ (invent) a "flying chair"! He lost his life while 12.___________ (test) this invention. Despite the failure, his curiosity 13.___________(give)future14.___________(explorer)ideas. People 15.___________ (learn) from his example, and 16.___________ (create) safer ways to explore space.

But curiosity is more than just taking risks. It also 17 .___________(drive) people towards certain goals. Zhang Heng, a Chinese 18 .___________(science) and inventor, was curious about the world: how did everything in the world move? He spent years 19.___________(study) the sky and the earth. Finally, he 20.___________ (draw) China's first star map, and invented the first earthquake 21.___________(detect). His curiosity continues to influence scientists today.

As Jacques Cousteau said, "What 22.___________ (be) a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on." Curiosity is the key. It opens one door after another for us to discover a new world.

 U4 Digital shock

I 1._________ (study) in China for a year and now it's the Christmas holiday. I 2._________ (be) back in the UK for three days, but it feels 3 ._________  a century! It's 4._________  (amaze) to see my family. Also, I really love Christmas and the delicious food. However, I 5 ._________ (have) some digital problems here.

Today, I wanted to get some vegetables and meat from a shop. I decided 6 ._________ (ride) a shared bike to get there. But it took forever 7 ._________ (find) a bike! I finally found an old one. But that 20-minute ride 8 ._________ (cost) me an arm and a leg—4.8 pounds!

In the shop, I quickly got everything I needed. I wanted to make digital 9 ._________ (pay) with my smartphone. I asked the shopkeeper to show the QR code, but she 10._________  (not understand)! Next, I tried 11 ._________ (use) my digital wallet, but the shop's payment system didn't work. The shopkeeper told me to use cash. As I always make digital payments in China, I never carry my wallet. I had to go home 12 ._________ (get) some cash.

When I got home, I was so tired that I gave up on cooking. I ordered my favourite dishes 13._________  an app instead, but the delivery 14._________  (be) really slow. When my dishes finally 15._________  (arrive) 90 minutes later, they 16 ._________ (be) stone-cold! I had to heat them one by one in the oven. I 17 ._________ (feel) tired and hungry.

Except for today, I 18._________  (have) a great holiday. However, I 19 ._________ (look) forward to going back to China. The technology there lets me 20._________  (live) a more convenient life!

 U4 The fun they had

In her diary, on 17 May 2157, Margie 1._________ (write): “Today, Tommy found a real book!”

It was a very old book. They 2._________ (turn) the old, yellow pages. It was strange 3 ._________(read) the words. They stood still on the pages, instead of 4._________ (move) across a screen.

“What a waste!” said Tommy. “When you finish the book, you just throw it away, I guess. Our television screen must 5 ._________(have) a million books on it now! I wouldn’t throw it away.”

Margie asked, “What’s the book about?”

“School.”

“Why would anyone write about school?”

“Because it’s 6 ._________old kind of school, from hundreds of years ago. They 7 ._________(have) a teacher, but it was a person. There was a special building, and all the kids and teachers 8 ._________(go) there.”

Margie wanted 9._________ (read) about those funny schools. But her mother called, “Margie! School!”

Margie’s classroom was right next 10._________ her bedroom. Her teacher was a machine. It was on and 11 ._________(wait) for her now. The screen was 12._________ (light) up. The machine said: “Today’s lesson is on maths. Please put yesterday’s homework in the 13._________ (open).”

Margie 14._________ (do) so sadly. She 15 ._________(think) about the old schools. All the kids from the neighbourhood 16._________ (come), and laughed and shouted in the playground. They 17._________ (sit) together in the classroom, and went home together after school.

And the teachers 18._________ (be) people...

Margie was thinking about how the students must 19 ._________(love) school in the old days. She was thinking about the fun they 20 ._________(have).

U5 Rules

After a busy day at work, I 1._________ (get) on the train to go home. I went to a quiet area in order 2 ._________(read). I sat down and 3._________ (take) out my book.

Suddenly, a girl opposite 4._________ (I) started 5._________ (play) loud music on her phone. What a shock! I almost 6._________ (jump) up in surprise.