【期末题型专题】（牛津上海版）2022-2023学年八年级英语下学期：专题07- 选词填空20篇（最新名校期末好题） 练习（原卷+解析）

专题07 选词填空20篇（最新名校期末好题）（原卷版）

学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________

一、短文选词填空

（2022·上海·八年级期末）Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each can only be used once.(将下列单词填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次)

English is spoken as a first language（语言）by most people in the USA, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. But it is also used in many other ____1____. If you go to France（法国）or India, you will use English. It is used by travelers and business（生意）people all over the world（世界）. That’s ____2____ we are learning English in China. It is one of the most ____3____ languages because it is used everywhere. If we learn English ____4____, we will find that it is both useful and interesting.

（2022·上海浦东新·八年级上海民办华二浦东实验学校校考期末）将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空限填一词，每词只能填一次。

Animals can be more like humans than you might think. They have feelings of love, friendship and anger, just like we do. A BBC documentary (纪录片) shows animal relationships in a special way, more ____5____ than ever before.Spy in the Wild is a five-episode (五集) documentary. The video team sent 34 robot animals into the wild. These robots look and move like real animals. But they are actually spying (侦察) animals with cameras inside them.

A wild dog was sent to the grasslands of Africa. The dog first bowed to other wild dogs as a way of saying, “I am not a ____6____.” This allowed it to be accepted by the group. The robot dog recorded a mother protecting her children: a lion was coming close to her 12 little ones. Suddenly, the mother dog jumped in to draw the beast away. Her children were safe.

The robots and real animals even became friends. A spy monkey became popular with real monkeys after ____7____ with them for a month. One day, he fell from a tree. All the other monkeys thought he died. They were so sad that they surrounded (围绕) his body. One even hugged their robot friend.

However, not all of the newcomers were ____8____. Hippos are fierce protectors of their own land. They hit a spy hippo with their big heads. The spy squirrel was bullied (欺负), too. The real squirrels first stole his food, and then they stole his camera, too.

With the help of the animal spies, the documentary lets us into the heart of the wildlife world. It shows “how like us other animals really are,” director John Downer told the BBC．

（2022·上海普陀·八年级校联考期末）

One day a boy called Charles Chaplin was walking ___9___ along the street in London. It was a cold winter day in 1900. He ___10___ at the bread and wanted to buy it, but he didn’t have any money. There was something ___11___ happened that his father had died when he was young. He and his brother had to work to help their sick mother. Charles was small, sometimes he might be in ___12___, but his dream was very big. He wanted to be a great man in the world of the films, so he worked hard to be a good dancer and singer. Later his dream came true.

Even if you don’t ___13___ English, you can enjoy his films because no words are used in his films.

（2022·上海金山·八年级校联考期末）

The moon is the nearest neighbour in space. It is our satellite (卫星) and men have visited it already. It is smaller than the earth. Plants can’t grow on the moon ____14____ there is no air or water on it.The moon doesn’t have its own light. It shines back the light of the sun. When the sun is shining on the side of the moon which faces us, it ____15____ a great ball. We can’t see the other side of the moon. Because that side never faces the earth.

In fact, the moon isn’t as ____16____ as it looks. It is three hundred and eighty thousand kilometres away from the earth. Of course we can fly to the moon in a ____17____. A spaceship flies very, very fast, and it flies at about eleven kilometres a second. So it only ____18____ more than three days to get there by spaceship.

（2022·上海嘉定·八年级统考期末）

A young prince had just recently become king. In order to rule his country, he was determined to learn all the wisdom of the world. Therefore, he gathered all the wise men from his country and ___19___ and ordered them to look for books for him to read and learn from. Five years passed ___20___. The wise men returned with their camels, carrying 5,000 books full of wisdom. Seeing so many books, the king was so ___21___ that he didn’t know how to start. So he ordered the wise men to condense (精简) the books and bring them back to him. Another five years passed. The ___22___ men again went to see the king, this time bringing 500 books, but the king still thought there were too many. He never took interest in the real wisdom and his country was destroyed.

（2022·上海奉贤·八年级统考期末）将下列单词或短语前的字母填入空格。每个单词或短语限填写一次。

Alice is a Chinese-American student. She has found many differences of values ____23____ Chinese and Americans. About money

The American children love to ____24____ money by themselves. Chinese children always ask their parents for money. American parents don’t think it is ____25____ to send their children to an expensive university. Chinese parents would do anything to send their children to good universities even if it could make them very poor.

About school

Many American girls take part in sports, dancing and singing groups. Many Chinese girls ____26____ academic (学术的) activities. American students usually feel happy when they get a “B” in an exam. Chinese students feel sad when they get a “B”.

（2023春·上海·八年级期末）Complete the following passage with the words or expressions in the box. Each can only be used once.（将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次。）

“Wild Man of shennongjia（神农架）” has long been a mystery to people. Since the 1970s, many local people have sighted the wild man in the area. From 1976 to 1981, the Chinese scientists had made three scientific expeditions（科学考察）during which they only found some indirect evidence. But recently Chinese scientists are again becoming excited ____27____ the fact that a large hairy animal may live in central China. Now they hope it won’t be too long before they are able to ____28____ its existence（存在）. Their confidence is the result of a new discovery of the mystery animal in Hubei Province.Ten Chinese engineers, enjoying a holiday in a National Forest Park, were driving down a road. As their bus turned a corner, the men were ____29____ amazed by what they saw. Three tall animals, covered with long black hair, were crossing the road. On seeing the animal, the engineers immediately stopped and ran after them. However, when they saw how the animals moved ____30____ the forest with great speed and strength, they did not dare to follow any further.

However, scientists are delighted by the discovery, because the engineers were all very educated people and scientists feel they can ____31____ what they described.After the discovery, scientists returned to the forest and ____32____ some hair and measured footprints. About 20 inches appears to be the animal’s foot! Chinese scientists have now set up a special group to exchange information and make a ____33____ of the forest. But in the meantime, some people ____34____ to believe that this half-man, half-monkey exists. They will not believe that it is real until one of the animals have been caught.

（2023春·上海·八年级期末）将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次。

Every morning my father buys a newspaper on his way to work. Every evening my mother reads magazines at home. And every night, I look at the posters with photos of David Beckham and Yao Ming on my bedroom wall before I go to sleep. Can we __35__ life without paper or print?

Paper was first created about 2,000 years ago, and has been made from silk, cotton, bamboo, and, since the 19th century, from wood. People learned to write words on paper to make a book. But in those days, books could ___36___ be produced one at a time by hand and they were expensive and rare. Because there weren’t many books, few people learned to read.

Then printing was invented in China. When printing was developed greatly at the beginning of the 11th century, books could be produced more quickly and cheaply. Then more people learned to read. After that, knowledge and ____37____ spread（传播）quickly.

Today information can be received online, downloaded from the Internet rather than found in books, and information can be kept on CD-ROMs or machines ___38___ MP3 players.

Computers are already used in classrooms, and newspapers and magazines can already be read online. So will books be replaced by computers one day? I am not sure.

（2021春·上海浦东新·八年级统考期末）将下列单词填入空格，每空格限填一词，词只能填一次，用A，B，C，D或E表示。

It was a bright Saturday and we were sitting in a modern restaurant. We were all students together many, many years ago. We had finished the noodles at the end of the __39__, when the monitor said, “Let’s take it in turns to __40__ our experiences.”Cathy started, “I have travelled a lot. I have visited many __41__ because of my work. I have seen the River Amazon and seen the snow in Canada. I’ve also been riding on a camel in the Arabian Desert.”

Joyce said, “I have been very __42__ and am rich. I have opened many businesses, worked hard and had plenty of good ideas. So if you need help in doing business, I’ll always be glad to give you a hand.”

“Well, I have done a lot of good things. I __43__ people in hospital, raised money for the hospital’s services and helped people.” said Ricky.Next was Ken. Once he was a __44__ little boy. Now he was a serious older man with heavy glasses and not much hair. “I have worked in a science research center. I have been busy in my laboratory day after day. I have always been thinking about the future and helping us __45__ it. Then there was silence.

“So what about you, Mary? ”

Mary smiled __46__. “I have done everything you have done.” “How can that be?”

“I have travelled all around the world and into space and into the past and many other wonderful things all through the world of books...”

（2023春·上海·八年级期末）将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次。

Jess really felt very happy. When he arrived at his seat in the classroom that morning, he found an invitation on his desk. It was from several of his classmates asking him to __47__ them on a camping trip. This was the first time he was asked to take part in an out-of-school activity. Why were they asking him now? Jess thought __48__ seemed to like him. In fact, he had been so lonely that he drowned his feeling with food. As a result, he had put on a lot of weight, and this gave the kids something more to make fun of him.Cindy, who was standing near Jess when he read the invitation, went out quickly to tell the others that the trick（恶作剧）had worked. Everyone was pleased that Jess thought that was __49__. But there was no camping trip. The whole thing was made up.

At first, Cindy thought it was fun. But later, when Jess told her that he was going to buy a sleeping bag with his savings（积蓄）, Cindy had a second idea. She knew that Jess’s family had little money, and she hated to see him ___50___ his savings on something he would never use, but her close friends also hated to tell Jess the truth. They would be angry with her. What could she do now?

（2021春·上海普陀·八年级统考期末）Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once (将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次)

Emily Mason and George Peters were neighbours. When they were little children, they ____51____ play together. They were good friends though they sometimes fought over toys or quarrelled about what game they would play. As they grew older, they played together ____52____. Emily preferred to be with girls, and George preferred to play with boys. When they were about fifteen years old, they seldom spoke to each other, not because they had disagreed with each other about anything, but just because they ____53____ different groups. For one thing, Emily was developing into a very good student, while George was an ____54____ sports player. Emily liked television programs, and for some reasons, she enjoyed watching football games very much. Her mother used to say, “Emily, I’ve ____55____ heard of a girl who likes football as much as you do.”

（2021春·上海金山·八年级统考期末）Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each can only be used once.（将下列单词或短语前的字母填入空格，每空格限填一词， 每词只能填一次）：

As my summer holiday was coming, I made a long list of things that I wished to do. I could ____56____ wait to begin a wonderful journey. But my mom told me that I had to live with my grandfather for six weeks, so I ____57____. A voice inside me said that it would be unpleasant to live with my grandpa because I would have no afternoon baseball games with my neighborhood friends.The first week with Grandpa was ____58____. We went out for dinner and watched TV together. One day, Grandpa was sitting at the table reading the newspaper. I sat on the couch and flipped (快速翻动) through my baseball card collection. “Wish I had a Hank Aaron card,” I said to ____59____.

When Grandpa heard me, he said in surprise, “I didn’t know you liked baseball, Susan.” I ____60____ that I liked playing baseball best and I usually played it all summer with my friends. Grandpa said excitedly, “Let’s go. I want to show you something.” We drove for quite a while, and when Grandpa finally stopped the car, we were in front of some old houses. A sign on each house said, “Land will be sold. Call for ____61____.” Grandpa whispered, “I haven’t been here for a long time, ____62____ twenty or thirty years.” We walked there and he pointed down the street and said, “That’s the field where I used to play baseball every summer.” Then I realized ____63____ we were: This was the house where Grandpa grew up!

（2022春·上海长宁·八年级上海市新泾中学校考期末）

I am a plastic bottle. A week ago, I was on a supermarket shelf. I had a normal life, the same as all my brothers and sisters—other bottles full of water. I felt ___64___ happy.

Then a tall woman picked me up and put me in her ___65___! The woman took me home and put me in the fridge. It was cold, but I soon made friends with the cans and bottles in it. However, only a few hours ___66___, she took me out of the fridge and drank the water inside me. Then she threw me into a litter bin. I have never felt so ___67___ and alone in my life.

Early the next morning, a man took me out of the litter bin. He threw me and the other rubbish into the back of a truck. There were so many awful smells. Then I was ___68___ together with the rest of the rubbish. Soon I was completely flat (扁平的). I cannot believe how thin I became.

（2022春·上海青浦·八年级统考期末）Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once.（将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次）

We usually think that plants are quiet in the natural world. But in fact, plants talk to each other all the time. Their language is chemical.Recently, a team led by a scientist from Japan’s Kyoto University has ____69____ some explanations, reported Time magazine.

The scientists studied tomato plants. First, they grew plants in two plastic houses connected by a tube (管子). One plant was bitten by insects while ____70____ was not.

They found that when insects bite leaves, a plant doesn’t sit quietly. It ____71____ a chemical called HexVic into the air. These chemicals carry an odor (气味) that neighboring plants can sense. But people don’t notice it.

This way, the neighboring plants understand that ____72____ is coming. They begin to make more HexVic to protect themselves.

Later, scientists put insects on the neighboring plants. The plants were able to kill nearly 50 percent of invaders (入侵者), much more than their sick neighbors.

It was surprising that plants don’t produce a chemical until they get a ____73____ message from their neighbors, scientists said. These findings may help farmers with pest control.

（2022春·上海浦东新·八年级上海市进才中学北校校考期末）用方框中的单词完成下面的短文。每个单词只能用一次。

Say goodbye to Cindy, the student, and say hello to Cindy, the babysitter (看孩子的人). That’s right—starting in just a few short weeks. I’m going to be ___74___ for taking care of a couple of little children for the summer! Just last week, I was sitting in the kitchen when I happened to hear my mum talking to her friend, Mrs Barb. It ___75___ like Mrs Barb was looking to put her kids in daycare for the summer. I flew out of my seat as fast as I could and started ___76___ my arms in front of my mum’s face and finally she asked what I wanted. So I said if Mrs Barb needed someone to watch her kids, I would love to do it. And guess what? They ___77___ thought that as a good idea!

The next day I met the children and they are ___78___ great. Adam is three and Samantha is five. She is a bit bossy (专横的) but I think we’ll get ___79___ just fine. I’m going to start watching them all day long. I’ve never had a job before. Hopefully I will be able to handle (处理) it.

（2022春·上海松江·八年级统考期末）Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each word or phrase can only be used once（将下列单词填入空格。每空格限填一个单词，每词只能填一次）

As the COVID-19 outbreak started, Elvis thought about the difficulties elderly people faced. They had to stay at home to be safe, so he wondered ____80____ they would get things they needed. “I was thinking about my grandma,” Elvis said. “I decided to make a care pack for her.” He and his mom bought the ____81____ his grandma might need. That way, she wouldn’t have to leave her apartment.Elvis thought about his grandma’s elderly ____82____. He wanted them to stay home and to be safe too. So he used his savings to create more care packages, with food, soap, toilet paper, and other supplies. Friends and family ____83____ money, too, so that Elvis could make enough bags for everyone in his grandma’s building. He ____84____ was able to deliver hot meals. “It felt great to help,” said Elvis. “The elderly people knew that I had their back.”

（2022·上海·八年级期末）

When you sit down with your family to eat a meal, do you ever wonder where and when the tradition （传统） of ___85___ chopsticks began?

People say that the first chopsticks were used in China 5,000 years ago. The practice became popular in Korea, Vietnam and Japan. Today they are a symbol （象征） of Asian culture. Of Asian countries, Japanese have a day to ___86___them. August 4th is Chopsticks Day in Japan. The different cooking traditions of Asia lead to different kinds of chopsticks. For example, the Japanese use sharp chopsticks because they eat a lot of fish. Sharp chopsticks ___87___picking the fish from the bones.

Chopsticks are made from different kinds of material Bamboo chopsticks are common because the material is easy to break apart and doesn’t burn ____88____.People also use wood and bone for chopsticks. Some rich people had theirs made from precious metals. Many kings used silver chopsticks, for it was believed that they would___89___ black if there was poison in the food. There are also many table manners ___90___chopsticks. For example, never stick your chopsticks upright in your rice bowl or tap on your bowl with your chopsticks. People believe this is impolite to the host.

（2022春·上海徐汇·八年级上海市第四中学校考阶段练习）将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次

I’ve read many stories about family memories. It is true that so much in our daily lives makes us busy all the time. We have less and less time to spend with our families and friends. I’ve had the ___91___ experience myself.I used to spend happy times with my grandfather when we lived together. When I was very young, I often enjoyed his garden, looking at the blooms (花) and watering his fruit trees. As I ___92___, I gradually started to become self-centered.

Once, when I was 6, I went out shopping with him. As he and I took the wrong bus and got lost outside, I couldn’t stay calm and shouted rudely. And I didn’t say sorry to him ___93___ returning home, believing that I had done nothing wrong.

I now realize ___94___ late it was when I finally said it was my fault! Yet, when I ___95___ wanted to express my regret, my grandfather had left me forever, leaving me with no more chances to apologize for my mistake.

So make the most of every second you still have with your loved ___96___, because time keeps going, waiting for no one.

（2022·上海浦东新·八年级上海民办华二浦东实验学校校考期末）

A beggar (乞丐) found a purse that someone had dropped in the marketplace. Opening it, he discovered that it contained 100 pieces of gold. Then he ____97____ a merchant (商人) shout, “A reward (重赏) ! A reward to the one who finds my purse!”Being an honest man, the beggar came forward and ____98____ the purse to the merchant, saying, “Here is your purse. May I have the reward now?”

“Reward?” said the merchant, greedily counting his gold. “Why, the purse I dropped had 200 pieces of gold in it. You’ve already stolen ____99____ the reward! Go away, or I’ll tell the police.”

“I’m an honest man,” said the beggar, “Let us take this matter to the court (法庭).” In the court the judge ____100____ listened to both sides of the story and said, “The law is fair! Merchant, you said you lost 200 pieces of gold. But, the purse this beggar found had only 100 pieces of gold. Therefore, it couldn’t be the one you lost.” And, with that, the judge gave the purse and all the gold to the beggar.

（2023春·上海浦东新·八年级上海市进才中学北校校考阶段练习）

“About half of the adults in the United States drink a soda every day,” Physician Leland, MD stated. “But I’m sure if that more adults knew what they were doing to their bodies, they would work hard to ____101____ drink soda again.”In one study, four groups of adults ____102____ their normal diet for six months plus a liter of sugared soda per day, a liter of diet soda per day, a liter of milk per day, or a liter of water per day. No ____103____, the sugared soda group gained 22 pounds. The diet soda group gained 3.5 pounds. The milk group stayed the same. The water group lost 4.5 pounds. Now, 3.5 is better than 22 pounds, but they still gained weight even without the calories. And the milk has ____104____ many calories as the sugared soda, so why didn’t that group gain weight? It seemed that the diet sweetener(甜味剂) still ____105____ problems.

____106____, it’s always better to reach for water when you’re thirsty.