期末复习--完形填空练习 2025-2026学年外研版八年级英语上册

期末复习

完形填空练习

A(This is me)

Frank and his brother Jack lived near the ocean. Frank was outgoing（外向的）but Jack was __1__. Frank liked to play games of beach volleyball, football and other __2__, while Jack liked to draw and build sandcastles（沙堡）.

Frank thought Jack’s hobbies were boring. He believed doing sports was __3__ than building sandcastles because children could play together. Jack didn’t agree and he decided to show Frank what doing things together looked like! After Jack finished  __4__ a beautiful sandcastle, he took pictures of it. Then he used them to make colorful posters saying “Can you top（胜过）this?” He put up his __5__ everywhere in town. He expected people of all ages to come and __6__.

On a Saturday morning, Jack began digging on the beach. Later, four kids joined him. By noon, the kids became __7__. After Frank came back from his ball game, he went to see his brother’s sandcastles. He __8__ believe his eyes. At least 20 people were building sandcastles, and __9__was laughing and working together! It was the most beautiful thing he had seen on the beach. “I was __10__,” Frank said. Jack gave him a shovel（铲子）with a smile, and they started digging together.

No two leaves are the same in the world. We should always be able to see things from others’ perspects.

1. A. confident B. shy C. pale D. busy

2. A. sports B. books C. lessons D. experiences

3. A. more enjoyable B. less interesting C. much cheaper D. more boring

4. A. breaking B. making C. finding D. touching

5. A. pictures B. sandcastles C. stamps D. posters

6. A. look B. cheer    C. try D. relax

7. A. more B. braver C. fewer D. closer

8. A. shouldn’t B. couldn’t C. needn’t D. wouldn’t

9. A. anyone B. nobody C. somebody D. everyone

10. A. correct B. different C. wrong D. excited

 

B(Getting along)

One day, an owner of a boat asked a man to paint a boat for him. When the man was painting, he found there was a__1__and repaired（修补）it. When he finished painting, he got his money and left.

The next day, the owner of the boat came to the painter and gave him a nice check（支票）and it was much __2__ than the money for painting.

“You have already paid me for painting the boat!” he said in __3__.

“But this is not for the painting job. It’s for repairing the hole in the boat,” answered the owner of the boat.

“It was just a small __4__. You don’t have to pay me such a high price!”

Then the owner told the man what happened. When he asked the man to paint the boat, he __5__ the hole. After the paint was __6__, his children took the boat to fish but they didn’t know the hole. The owner wasn’t at home at that time. So when he came back and heard they took the boat, he couldn’t __7__ the result. Luckily, his children came back soon from fishing. He was excited.

Then he __8__ the boat and found that the man repaired the hole!

“You saved（拯救）the lives of my children! I don’t have enough money to __9__ for your ‘small’ good action,” said the owner.

The man’s kindness made a big difference to the boat owner and his children. No matter who you are, just help and __10__repair the “hole” your find. It’s because you never know when one is in need of our help.

1. A. hole    B. picture C. pocket D. toy

2. A. lower  B. more  C. better  D. worse

3. A. pain  B. fear   C. purpose D. surprise

4. A. gate   B. act    C. symbol D. tradition

5. A. forgot  B. offered C. shouted D. divided

6. A. wet   B. dark   C. dry   D. bright

7. A. show  B. suppose C. happen D. imagine

8. A. checked B. covered C. left  D. built

9. A. reach   B. pay C. satisfy  D. return  

10. A. secretly B. happily C. carefully D. actually

 

C(Make it happen)

My love of building things began when I was a kid. It wasn’t until I heard about Thomas Edison.

When I was in fourth grade, our teacher gave us a __1__ . We had to write to a company and learn about the products it made.  I__2__ the Thomas A. Edison Company.

Soon__3__ I wrote to the company, our postman sent a package（包裹）to me. It contained（包含）a book about the life of Thomas Edison. I liked reading about his inventions. The ones that __4__ me most were movies, recorded sound, and the electric light. Edison became my__5__ .

My dad noticed my interest in inventing and he __6__ me. He showed me how to__7__ my ideas into plans and, finally, into new things.

Together, my dad and I repaired radios and televisions. Once, I made a __8__to adjust （调整） the brakes（刹车片）of our car. This surprised my dad so much. Later, we found a similar tool in a store. That was when I learnt that __9__inventors often invented similar things.

As my father and I worked together, I began to __10__that my dad was quite an inventor himself. His guiding hands, together with my interest in inventing, led me to become an engineer and inventor.

1. A. balloon B. project  C. customer D. poem

2. A. started  B. stole  C. chose  D. took

3. A. before  B. after   C. while  D. since

4. A. warned B. hated  C. avoided D. interested

5. A. hero  B. student  C. scientist D. staff

6. A. encouraged B. increased  C. completed D. regretted

7. A. express B. prevent  C. turn  D. stick

8. A. joke  B. tool   C. novel  D. stamp