新八年级英语上册语篇训练十四

八年级英语上册语篇训练十四完形填空Imagine（想象）this: Family memebers travel far for a good meal together. The big dish is a roast trukey （烤火鸡）. That’s ______ American people do on Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday of November.Do you know how the day started? We have to go back about 400 years. In 1620, the first group of English people came to ______ by ship. They lived there, _______ they didn’t have enough to eat. Many of them died of ______ during the first winter.The next year, Indians helped them grow food. They got a _______ harvest（丰收）. So the Americans _______ three days eating and playing sports to celebrate. That was the first Thanksgiving. It’s a time to thank others ________ their love and help in life.On Thanksgiving, families eat ta big Turkey, corn（玉米）and pumpkin（南瓜）pies. There’s so much _______. Some people get stomachache.People also go out to enjoy parades（游行）on the streets. Lots of people like to _______ American football on TV on Thanksgiving. Some even watch games all evening.They _______ give thanks to their loved ones and play games. It’s a great day!( ) 1. A. that B. what C. why D. when ( ) 2. A. England B. AfricaC. AmericaD. India( ) 3. A. but B. or C. and D. so ( ) 4. A. heat B. cold C. hunger D. work ( ) 5. A. happy B. easy C. hard D. good ( ) 6. A. took B. paid C. spent D. used ( ) 7. A. with B. at C. about D. for( ) 8. A. fun B. trouble C. food D. danger ( ) 9. A. see B. watch C. notice D. play ( ) 10. A. also B. even C. ever D. either 阅读理解Ron is ten years old. He loves to watch TV. But for one full year, he did not watch TV at all. What was the reason? Ron’s parents said they would give him $600 if he didn’t watch TV for a year.Ron’s parents thought he watched too much TV. One day, his mother saw a newspaper story about a boy who didn’t watch TV for a year. She showed the story to Ron. Ron liked the idea. He turned off the TV right away, and said, “It doesn’t bother me not to watch TV. I just want the money.”At first, Ron’s parents were very happy. Ron read books and newspapers, played outside, played computer games, and played cards with his mother. But after some time, he got bored. Every evening, he asked his parents, “What are we doing tonight?”Sometimes his mother and father wished he would watch TV, just for one evening. Ron always said, “No, it would cost me money!”Finally the year was over. Then Ron started watching his favorite TV shows all day long again. Ron got the money from his parents. What did he plan to do with the $600?“I want to buy myself a TV set!” he said. ( ) 11. Ron didn’t watch TV for one year because ________.A. he wanted the moneyB. he wanted to study harder.C. watching TV too much is bad.D. he wanted to learn from that boy.( ) 12. “It doesn’t bother me not to watch TV”means “It’s _______ for me to watch TV.”A. a waste timeB. importantC. no useD. unimportant( ) 13. Ron thought _______ for him to read and play all the time.A. it was great funB. it was no funC. it was interestingD. it was good( ) 14. Ron’s last words would _______ his parents.A. pleaseB. interestC. surpriseD. excite ( ) 15. The best title for the story is _______.A. A Funny StoryB. A Year Without TVC. A Good BoyD. Buying a TV SetBAn important question about eating outside is who pays for the meal. If a friend of yours asks you to have lunch with him, you may say something like this, “I’m afraid that I’ll have to be some place cheap, because I have very little money.”The other person may say, “OK, I’ll meet you at McDonald’s.”This means that these two persons agree to “go Dutch’, thatis to say, each person pays for himself.He may also say, “Oh, no. I want to take you to lunch at Smith’s.”or “I want you to try the Chinese dumplings there. They’re great.”This means the person wants to pay for both of you. If you feel friendly to this person, you can go with him and you needn’t pay for the meal. You may just say, “Thank you.” That would be very nice.American customs（习俗）about who pays for dates（约会）are much the same as in other parts of the world. In the old days, American women wanted men to pay for all the meals. But today, a university girl or a woman in business world will usually pay her was during the day. If a man asks her for a dance outside the working hours, it means “Come, as my guest.” So as you can see, it is a polite thing to make the question clear at the very beginning.( ) 16. The passage mainly tells us _______.A. how to eat outsideB. where to eat outsideC. what to eat outsideD. who pays for the meal ( ) 17. If you have little money, _______.A. you’ll have a cheap mealB. you’ll borrow some from othersC. you’ll ask your friends to pay for your mealD. you won’t want you friends to ask you to dinner( ) 18. “Go Dutch” in this passage means _______.A. 去饭馆B. 就餐C. 订餐D. 各自付款( ) 19. The sentence “ Sometimes your friend takes you to lunch.” means that _______.A. he’ll be angry with youB. he’s going to pay for you meal, too.C. he can’t understand youD. he’s going to lend some money to you. ( ) 20. In America, some girls and women now ________.A. ask men to pay for their mealsB. try to pay for the men’s mealsC. try to pay for their own mealsD. never have anything outside阅读理解填词Once there was a father and a son. They were bad-tempered（坏脾气的）and n_______ gave way to others.One day the father decided to invite some friends to d_______ in his house. He t_______ his son to buy some meat in town. When the son got what his father wanted, he t_______ back and walked to the town gate. Just then a man was coming from the o_______. The gate wasn’t wide（宽阔的）e_______ to let two men in and out at the same time. But neither （两者都不）of them would give way to the other. They stood s________ face to face inside the gate hour after hour. But the father was worried. “What shall I do? My son hasn’t returened yet. I can’t w______ any longer.”He wanted to know what happened to his son. So he l________ his friends at home, and went to town to look for his son.“You may first take the meat home for my friends. Let me stand here against him instead,”he said to his son when he k_______ what had happened.Linda has brought all her books home tonight. After s_______ she puts the books out on the table and begins to do the homework for each subject. She b_______ with math. She finds that she has no ruler; she looks for it everywhere, but doesn’t find it. After a little while, she doesn’t feel c________ in the chair. She moves to the sofa with all her books. A few m_______ later, she feels better. She moves back to the table. She has made a good start on her English when she stops to listen to her mother talking on the t________. When she comes back to her work, her little sister Betty asks her for some paper. Betty j_______ her at the table and begins to draw a horse. Linda has to help her. When they have finished, both go to the k_______. Linda eats some cakes there and brings a tin of coke to her table. She says to herself, “I’ll finish my English exercises t______ at school before classed start.”Then she starts to go over her history lesson, but she feels t______ . She doesn’t know what she is reading. She c________ her books and goes to bed.。