八年级英语首字母填空Passage 1 New Bug Hits MexicoMexican people have a tradition of greeting each other with handshakes and kisses on the cheek. But recently, government officals asked people to stop doing this. They have also closed school and museums, and advised people to s (1)at home.This is to prevent people from catching an infectious(传染性的)disease, swine flu(猪流感). The diseasehas spread over the country in the past month. It has killed 159 people and caused 4,000 to becomes (2).What is swine flu?Swine flu is a disease that causes respiratory(呼吸的) illness in pigs. It spreads to people in two ways. They catch the virus(病毒) after being with infected pigs,or they get it from an infected person.The d (3)spreads in the same way as human flu, through coughs and sneezes, or by touching a contaminated surface(被污染的表面) and then touching the nose or monuth. However , it cannot be spread by eating pork.People who have c (4) swine flu will have fever, a cough, a sore throat and body aches. In most casses, the infection makes people unwell but their lives will not be in danger.Health experts advise people to w (5)their hands frequently,to cover coughs and sneezes and to stay at home if they feel ill.Passage2 Global Handwashing Day(全球洗手日)Wednesday, October 15th,2008 is the first Global Handwashing Day.Many people w (1)their hands with soap (肥皂) on the day. They are f (2) twenly countries.Experts(专家) say it is important for people to wash their hands with soap at some critical moments,such as before e (3) and after using the toilet. B (4)they can get germs(细菌)on their hands when they do those things. Then their hands can make their eyes and noses d (5) and make people ill. They say that soap is helpful in washing hands. It can help remove( 祛除)germs and leave a pleasant s (6).The experts also give the right way to wash hands. First put your hands into the water and make them w (7). Then cover them with soap and rub( 摹) in into all a (8). Rub for at l (9)twenty senconds. Next put your hands under running water and make them clean. At last,dry them with a c (10)colth.Global Handwashing Day can help people keep healthy.Passage3 A Beautiful SmileWhen I was 13 years old, a boy gave me an important gift. It was a s (1).It was the early autumn of my first year at a j (2)high sclool,and my old school was far away. As a result, no one k (3)who I was. I was very lonely,and afraid to make friends with a (4) Every time I heard the other students talking and laughing,I felt my heart break. I couldn’t talk to anyone about me.Then one day,my classmates talked happily with their friends,but I sat at my desk. I couldn’t talk to anyone about my problem, and I didn’t want my parents to worry about me.Then one day,my classmates talked happily with their friends,but I sat at my desk unhappily as usual. Atthat moment, a boy e (5)the classroom. I didn’t know who he was. He passed me and then turnedb (6). He looked at me and, without a word,smiled.Suddenly , I felt the touch of something bright and friendly. It made me f (7)happy,lively and warm.That smile c (8)my life. I started to talk with the other students and made friends. Day by day,I because c (9)to everyone in my class. The boy with the lucky smile has because my best friend now.One day, I asked him why he smiled, but he couldn’t remember smiling at me!It doesn’t matter because all the dark days have g (10). Now I believe that the world is what youthink it is. If you think you are lonely,you might always be alone. So smile at the world and it will smile back. Passage 4Food is very important. Everyone needs to e (1)well if he or she wants to have a strong body. Our minds also need a kind of food. This kind of food is k (2). We begin to get knowledge even when weare very young. Small children are i (3) in everything around them. They learn somethingw (4)they are watching and listening. When they are getting older, they begin to r (5) story books,science books, anything they like. When they find something new, they love to ask questions and t (6) to find out the answers.What is the best w (7)to get knowledge? If we learn b (8) ourseves,we will get the most knowledge. If we are a (9) getting answers from others and do not ask why, we will never learn well. When we study in the right way,we learn more and understand m (10).Passage 5Everyone needs friends. We all like to feel c (1)to someone. It is nice to have a friend to t (2),laugh,and to do things. Certainly, sometimes we-need to be alone. We don’t always want peoplea (3). But we would f (4)lonely if we never had a friend.No two people are just the same. Friends sometimes don’t g (5)on well. It doesn’t mean that theyno longer like each other. Most of the time they will make up(重归于好) and become friends again.Sometimes friends move away. Then we feel very s (6). We miss them very much, but we can call them and write to them. And we can make new friends. It is surprising to find out h (7) much we like new people when we get to know them.There is more good n (8)for people who have friends. They live longer than people who don’t. why? It could be that they are happier. B (9) happy helps you stay well. Or it could be just knowing that someone cares. If someone c (10)about you,you take better care of yourself.Passage6A teenage girl couldn’t stand her parents’ family rules,so she left home. She wanted to be famous. But shehad p (1)education and several years later she had to ask for food on the street for a living. Now her father has d (2). Her mother is an old woman. But she is still l (3)for her daughter. She has been to every c (4)of the city. Everywhere she goes,she put up a big photo of herself on the wall. Atthe lower part of the photo she writes, “ I still love you …come b (5) home!”One day , the d (6)saw one of the photes. The face was familiar(熟悉). “ Is that my mother?” shemoved closer and read the w (7): I still love you … She cried. When she got home,it was early morning. She knocked on the door. The door o (8)itself. She rushed to her mother’s bedroom. Her mother was sleeping. She woke her mother up, “ It’s me! Your daughter is back home!” The daughter asked, “Why is the door ont locked? A thief could get in .” The mother answered softly, “ The door has never been locked since you left.”The door of p (10)love for their children will never be closed.Mr . Baker worked in a small town. Two weeks a (1), his friends helped him to find a job in New York. So he and his wife were going to move i (2) a building in the big city. Mr. Baker wanted to live in a room on the first floor and he could go for a walk in the beautiful garden aften s (3). But his wifth (4) to live on the second floor.“There’s enough sunlight, I think. And we can watch the f (5)in the garden by the windows,” said the woman . Mr.Baker thought she was right and agreed with her. I (6)was Saturday. All their friends came to help them. They were t (7) and hungry,and Mrs. Baker got nice food ready. They held a party. They ate and drank a lot. Then they kept singing and dancing. It l (8)a long time.Suddenly the telephone rang. Mrs. Baker went to a (9) it. Then she said to her husband proudly, “My choice is right! The man downstairs complained the phone that noise in our rooms makes them not f (10)asleep.”Passage 8 Most Americans’ HobbiesMost Americans enjoy moving from place to place. For example, they often drive their cars 120 to 160 kilometres away just to have d (1) with a friend or even fly to Europr( 欧洲)just for watching a football match. In some states only one person o (2) of five lives in a place for more than five years. One may be b (3)in one city ,and go to school in another. He may finish his middle school in two or t (4)cities, and then go to a college far across the country. When he has entered (进入)business, he may possibly move from job to job. Moving from one job to a (5), which is called “job—hopping”,is a very common practice in the United States. Job-hopping is good to workers, because every c (6)of a job gives them a chance to move up to a h (7)position and to get better pay. And job-hopping alsog (8) bosses the chance to get new ideas and skills that different people bring to their companies and factories.Passage 9Mike Robinson is a 15-year-old English schoolboy. His s (1)Clare is 14. At the moment, Mike and Clare are at a school in Sydney,one of the b (2)cities in Australia. They have been there for two years. They like the school, but they know that soon they will leave and r (3)to England with their parents.Mike and Clare have also been to school in America, Germany, France and China. This is because their father, Peter, works for a very big i (4)company. The company has o (5)in many different countries. The company has s (6)Peter to work in many different countries. Peter usually stays in one country for about two years. Then the company moves him a (7) . His family always goes with him.The Robinsons are a happy family and love seeing the world. Mike and Clare have learnt to speak French, German and a little C (8). The two children have friends all o (9)the world. But they are glad that they are going to retuin to England.Rcently,the children told their parents, “We want to stay in England. We don’t want to move again.” Their father a (10)and has asked his company to keep him in England. The company has agreed. Mike and Clare are very happy about this.“Dreams may be more important than sleep. We all need to d (1),” some scientists say.Dreams take up ( 占据)about one quarter of our s (2) time. Peopole have several dreams e (3)night. Dreams are like short films. They are usually in colour. Some dreams are like old films. They come to us over and over again. That may be b (4) the dreamer is worrying about something. Dreaming may be a way of trying to f (5) an answer.Some people get new ideas about their work from dreams. They may have been t (6)about their work all day. These thoughts can carry over(携人)into dreams.Sometimes we wake u (7)with a good feeling from a dream. But often we can’t remember the dream. Dreams can disappear(消失)quickly from meory(记忆).Too much dreaming can b (8)harmful( 有害的). The m (9)we sleep, the longer we dream. The mind is hard at work when we dream. That is why we may have a long sleep and still wake up t (10).Passage 11Bats(蝙蝠) are the only flying “animals”in the world. It is known to all that they cannot see very well. “As b (1) as a bat”is often h (2). Yet, they have no trouble flying on the d (3) nights and finding their way r (4) very well. Why can bats fly and see at night? They fly by “radar( 雷达)”. The bat's radar w (5) the same way as the radar on ships and planes. As a bat fliest (6) the air, it makes a sound. If the sounds hit t (7), they will come back and the bat's e (8) will receive the message. In this way, the bat is a (9) to know where the things are. Bats go out for f (10) at night. In the daytime, they hang in some dark places.Passage 12There are four people in my family. Every day my parents are very busy t (1) to make money in order to pay the high tuition(学费）for my brother and me. They hardly say "I love you" or send f(3)to each other. Besides，my father has a bad temper(脾气）．It is easy for him to lose his temper w(4)he's very tired from the hard work. I didn't know whether there was love between them u (5) one spring. At that time，my father suddenly got badly sick .My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they returned from the hospital，they both looked very w (6) as if both of them had a serious illness.After they were back，my mother helped my father walk slowly on the country road every day in the morning and dusk. H (7)，after two months my father still couldn't walk by h (8) ．All of us were worried about him."Dad，how are you f (8) now?" I asked him one day."Susan，don't worry about me.”he said i (9) a low voice.“I just like walking with your mom. I like this kind of life.”Reading his eyes，I know he loves my mother very much.Once I thought love m (10) flowers，presents and sweet kisses. But from this experience，I understand that love is inside，making life strong and warm.Passage 13School education( 教育) is very important and useful. Yet no one can l 1 everything at school and a teacher can’t teach his students e 2 they want to know. His job is to s 3 his students how to learn.He teaches them how to read and how to think. So the students can learn much more by t 4 .It is more i 5 to know how to study by oneself. It’s quite easy to learn something, but it’s difficult to u6 it to solve problems. Great inventors do not get everything from school, but they still can invent many things and change the world a l7 .How can the inventors do all of this? That’s b 8 they know how to study. A lot of things are not taughtin the classroom. They get a lot of knowledge by reading o 9 school. They work hard and never g 10 up all their lives.Passage 14Our school has a big library. It has many b 1 on different subjects. Students can r 2 books and magazines in the reading-room. They can also b 3 books from the library. But they must return t 4 on time. If they lose the books, they must p 5 for them. Miss Yang works in the l 6 . She is very helpful and kind to the students.One morning she was working at the desk w 7 Li Ping hurried in. She told Miss Yang that she couldn’t f 8 the library book “Red Star Over China”. At that moment Lucy came into the libraryw 9 Li Ping’s book. She found it in the classroom. Li Ping was very happy. She thanked Lucy and said that she would be more c 10 from then on.Passage 15I have lived in the countryside since I was a child. There were many k 1 of birds there when I was young. Every morning, lots of sparrows liked singing and j 2 in the trees outside my window, while the swallows were busy flying out to f 3 food for their babies. Sometimes in the afternoon, I could even see eagles f 4 in the sky.After twenty years, many of them cannot be seen now. I can seldom see the eagles o 5 the swallows. The n 6 of the sparrows is getting smaller. Only some of t 7 sing in the morning.Why do the birds leave here? First I think it is because the environment is becoming worse now. The birds can’t find e 8 food for themselves and their babies. Second I think it is because people often k 9 them for food.Without the birds around, we won’t feel happy any more. So we must p 10 them. Why don’t we do something to help today?Passage 1 1.stay 2. sick 3. disease 4. caught 5. washPassage 2 1.wash 2. from 3. eating 4. Because 5. dirty 6. smell 7. wet 8. areas 9. least 10. clean Passage 3 1.smile 2. junior 3. knew 4. anyone 5. entered 6. back 7. feel 8. changed 9. closer 10. gone Passage 4 1.eat 2. knowledge 3. interested 4. while 5. read 6. try 7. way 8. by 9. always 10. more Passage 5 1.close 2. talk 3. around 4. feel 5. get 6. sad 7. how 8. news 9. Being 10. caresPassage 6. poor 2. died 3. looking 4. corner 5. back 6. daughter 7. words 8. opened 9. happy 10. p arents’Passage 7 1.ago 2. into 3. supper 4. hoped 5. flowers 6. It 7. tired 8. lasted 9. answer 10. fallPassage 8. 1.dinner 2. out 3. born 4. three 5. another 6. change 7. higher 8. givesPassage 9. sister 2. biggest 3. return 4. international 5. offices 6. sent 7. away 8. Chinese 9. over 10.agreedPassage 10. 1. dream 2. sleep 3. every 4. because 5. find 6. talking 7. up 8. be 9. more 10. tiredPassage 11. 1.blind 2.heard 3.darkest/dark 4.round 5.works 6.through 7.things 8.ears 9.able10.foodPassage 12. 1.trying 2. flowers 3. when 4. until 5. weak 6. However 7. himself 8. feeling 9. in 10 meant Passage 13. 1. learn, 2. everything, 3. show, 4. themselves, 5. important, 6. use, 7. lot, 8. because, 9. outside, 10. give Passage 14. 1. books 2. read 3. borrow4. them 5. pay 6. library 7. when 8. find 9. with 10. carefulPassage 15. 1. kinds 2. jumping 3. find 4. flying 5. or 6. number 7. them 8. enough 9. kill 10. protect“”“”At the end, Xiao Bian gives you a passage. Minand once said, "people who learn to learn are very happy people.". In every wonderful life, learning is an eternal theme. As a professional clerical and teaching position, I understand the importance of continuous learning, "life is diligent, nothing can be gained", only continuous learning can achieve better self. Only by constantly learning and mastering the latest relevant knowledge, can employees from all walks of life keep up with the pace of enterprise development and innovate to meet the needs of the market. This document is also edited by my studio professionals, there may be errors in the document, if there are errors, please correct, thank you!。