2016-2017学年度深圳龙华中学8A unit4 主题阅读（无答案）

八年级上Unit 4 主题阅读 一、完型填空。（20%） The safety pin (安全别针) is one of the simplest _____1___ever. And this great idea also saved a man named Walter Hunt from a life of loneliness (孤独). Walter Hunt loved a girl and wanted to marry her. But her father didn’t accept ___2___Hunt had no job __3___money. Her father told Hunt that he could marry her if he earned 1,000 dollars within 10___4___. Hunt ____5__ that he would do it. When Hunt got home, he began to ___6___ very hard. How could he earn 1,000 dollars in 10 days? At that time, a thousand dollars was a lot of money. Many days passed. Finally, on the ___7___day, Hunt ____8____ an idea. He noticed that a lot of Americans pinned ribbons to their shirts around Easter time. Every time somebody hugged someone else at church or at family gatherings, the pins would prick (刺) them. The pins would fall off very ___9___. Hunt thought of the first safety pin. It would keep the ribbons on people’s shirts and it also wouldn’t pri