沪教牛津英语8年级上期末复习系列.语法填空 1

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或用括号中词语的正确形式填空。将答案写在答卷上（共10小题，每小题1分）

Passage 1

There are only two 1._______(season) in some countries—the dry season and the

2.______(rain) season. They are India, Vietnam and some countries in Africa. It’s never cold there and it doesn’t snow. In the dry season it is as

3._______(warm) as it is in the rainy season. When it is the dry season, it doesn’t rain at all. It’s very, very hot. All grass and

4.______(leaf) in the trees are yellow. Animals and people are very thirsty. It is a very

5.________(difficulty) time for them! When it is the rainy season, the rain doesn’t stop, it

6._______(rain) day and night. There is a lot

of water around! Some animals like it, but some don’t.

There is a place 7._____ there are no seasons at all. It is 8.______ Antarctic. It is very cold all the year round. There are no countries and no cities there. There are some villages there.Who lives there? Some 9._______(science) from some countries go there to learn about 10._______(cold) place, its animals and birds. But there are no trees, no flowers, no fruit there, so people can’t live there long.

Passage 2

During the 2019 Rio Olympics, people were surprised 1.______(see) the round, purple marks on the body of the famous American 2.______(swim) Michael Phelps. What happened to him? In fact, he just visited a doctor of 3._______(traditional) Chinese medicine (TCM) and had “cupping”(拔火罐).

Massage and acupuncture(针灸) are two other importance 4.______(kind) of TCM. Chinese massage can make you relaxed and fresh. In acupuncture, doctors put long 5.______ (needle) into the patients’ heads, faces, arms, etc. It takes away pain, 6._____ the look is funny.

TCM is 7._______ important part of Chinese culture. The earliest medical classic in China, Huangdi’s Classic on Medicine, 8.______(come) out more than 2,000 years ago. The book is about the relationship between man and nature. In Chinese culture, yin and yang are the two parts of nature. Nature keeps 9._______(balance) if yin and yang work well together. The human body needs such a balance, too. TCM helps to do that. Quite 10._______(special), for some health problems, a doctor of TCM will not give you medicine. Instead, he may give you just a food plan and right ways to eat.

Passage 3

I’ve been smoking ever since I was very young. To be 1._____(honesty), I never considered what could happen 2.______ my body if I kept 3._______(smoke). I just knew that I couldn’t help smoking, 4._______(especial) when I felt very anxious. One day, I started to notice that it was getting harder and harder for me to do simple things like walking. Several months 5._____(late), I couldn’t get through a conversation without coughing.

6.______(final), I went to see a doctor. He told me I had COPD(慢肺阻). He said I had to stop smoking. I wasn’t sure I could make it. Actually I wasn’t sure I wanted to stop it. He said that it would get harder to breathe

7._____ I didn’t stop smoking, and that one day I might have to be seriously ill in bed. That made me so

8.______(scare) enough that I decided to give a try.However,