八年级选词填空专项训练A级：important holiday for Chinese people. For the Chinese, the New Year ___2___ with the first day of the first moon, between January21 and February 19.People have the holiday for fifteen ___3___. There is a name for each Chinese year. We may call it the year of the sheep, the year of the tiger ___4___ the year of the pig. And this year 2012 is the year of the dragon.It is an important time for the family. ___5___ New Year's Day, people are busy shopping and cleaning their houses. ___6___ New Year's Eve there is a big family dinner. After dinner, all the family ___7___ to bed late to welcome the New Year. They always make a resolution to wish their lives ___8___ than before. On the first day of the New Year, people put on their new clothes and go to visit their friends. They ___9___ "Good luck” and some ___10___ greetings(问候）to each other. People usually have a very good time during the festival.答案：1. most 2. comes 3. days 4. or 5. Before 6. On 7. go 8. better9. say 10. other___1____. Long before her books became popular, she has to teach ___2____ how to use a computer. And she didn’t like being away ___3____ she was worried about thieves. She was very careful. Just before ___4____, she always put a full cup of coffee on the writing desk, and left the radio playing to ___5____ a thief think someone must be at home. One day she came back after a day out and found that there was something ___6____ in her house. There was only a little___7____ left in the cup, and the radio was off. But when she looked at the computer, she saw it was on and someone had typed in a new story. She had no idea who had got in, or how, because none of the door and windows was ___8____. Then she sat down to read the story. To her surprise, it was a very good one. “I will use it in my ___9____ book!” She said ___10____.答案：1.house 2.herself 3.because 4.leaving 5.make 6.different 7.coffee8. broken 9.next 10. happilyto do this was to become a flight attendant. I've ___2___ a flight attendant for two years now. It's really interesting job ___3___ I travel all over the world. I discovered that the most important requirement job was to speak English well, so I ___4___ English at the Hilltop Language School for five years before I became a flight attendant. It was because I could speak English ___5___ I got the job. My friend David wants to be ___6___ excellent tour guide. In ___7___, it's all he has ever wanted to be. He wants to travel, especially to English-speaking ___8___ such as the USA andAustralia. However, he knows that he has to ___9___ his English, so he has started to take___10___ at the Hilltop Language School, too. The school has really helped him learn English.答案：1. best 2. been 3.because 4.studied 5.that 6.an 7. fact8.countries 9.improve 10.lessonsB级：(一)___1___, you should exercise ___2___.Let me tell you ___3___ about a new kind of sport—parkour(跑酷). It’s an interesting sport. It___4___ from France. It began in the 1980s. Around 2000, Chinese boys and girls started ___5___ this sport and are going to like it little___6___ little. They like showing it to ___7___. People enjoy ___8___ them doing this sport.Do you ___9___ to have a go? But the sport can be ___10___, so you should be careful.答案： 1. healthy 2.often 3.something es 5. learning 6.by 7.others8. watching 9. want 9. dangerousFirstly, as you know, if we can’t sleep well, we will feel tired. If we can't finish ___3___ work in the daytime, we ___2___ to do it at night. We have to get up early so that we can go to school on time. We sometimes go to bed ___4___ and get early. So we can’t ___5___ well. Most people need at least eight ___6___ sleep. If we sleep only six hours a day, we will be tired. Secondly, when we are___7___, we will feel tired. But sometimes we don’t know we are ill. So if you are always tired, perhaps you are not so healthy. You’d better go to see a___8____. Thirdly, if the air around you isn’t nice and ___9____, you will feel tired. So open your windows or go out for a walk, and then you will feel ___10___.答案： 1.why 2. our 3. have 4. late 5. sleep 6. hours’7. ill 8.doctor 9.clean10. goodlike to watch ___3___ play sports games. They buy ___4___ or turn on their TV sets to sit in front of them.Sports ___5___ with the seasons. People play different games in different seasons. Sometimes they play inside the room. Sometimes they play outside. We can find sports here and there. Some sports are rather ___6___ and people ____7___ like them. Football, for example, is very popular in the world. People from different __8___ find it difficult to ___9___ each other. But after a game they often become very ____10__ to each other.答案：1. enjoy 2. health 3. other than 4. tickets 5. change 6. interesting7. everywhere 8. countries 9. understand 10. friendlyC级(一)Do you know what “TV shopping” is? It has become more and more popular these days.In the past, when we needed something, we went to a place, bought it, and then___1___.Some people spent much time ___2___ on streets and looking at all the shopping windows. At last, they carried a lot of things ___3___ home or had none of them. They got very tired after for so long.Now, you have another way ___4___ easier to do —TV shopping. Just turn on the TV, switch(转换) to the shopping channel, get a Coke for ___5___ and the only thing you have to do is to sit comfortably and watch TV. You don’t need to worry ___6___ it’s cold or hot outside, whether you get a friend to go with you, ___7___ whether you have enough money with you. After you order the products you see on TV, they will be ___8___ to your house within only a few days. What if you don’t like the things you’ve bought? Don’t worry! You can give them back. More importantly, you pay ___9___ for that.TV shopping is now the most common and ___10___ way for shopping. Try it next time when you need to buy something.答案： 1. left 2. walking 3. back 4. much 5. yourself 6. whether7. or 8. sent 9. nothing 10. easywas 23. He didn’t feel happy at all. His college friends were looking for ___1___first jobs,___2___he didn’t have to. John decided to keep ___3___ a simple life like everyone else. He didn’t tell ___4___ of his friends and gave $100,000 of his money to a charity that helped poor children to live a better ___5___. Today he is 36, he still wears cheap shoes and clothes and owns a small car only, but he is much ___6___.Up to now John has ___7___ 15 children from poor countries all over the world, $200 a month for each. The child does not receive the money in cash. The money pays for the ___8___ school expenses, food medical care and clothing. John receives a report each year ___9___ the child’s progress. They can write to each other, but usually the children ___10___ speak English .“I want to do everything I can. I will go on helping those children in need.” He said.答案：1. their 2. but 3. living 4. any 5. life 6. happier7. helped 8. child’s 9. on 10. don’t(三)Bill lived with his father. He showed great interest in football when he was a small kid. Years later, he was ___1___ to be on the college team. However, he was always on the beach though he was trying his ___2___ to practice.It was the end f the football seasons. One day, Bill said to the coach in a ___3___ voice, “my father died this morning. May I ___4___ the practic e today, sir? ” The coach agreed, “Take the rest of the week off, my boy. And don’t even come back to the game on Saturday.”Saturday arrived, ___5___ Bill’s team was doing badly. Just then, the coach and his players were ___6___ to see Bill back, “ Sir, please let me play,” he said. The coach wanted to refuse but finally agreed. To every one’s surprise, Bill played so well that the other team could not stop him.Finally, Bill’s team won the match. When all ___7___ and cheered, the coach noticed Bill sitting in a corner ___8___. He came and said, “ Bill, you were fantastic! How did you do it? ”“Well, you knew my father died, ___9___ did you know that my dad was blind? ” he said with tears in his eyes. “Dad came to all my ___10___, but today was the first time when he could see me play, and I wanted to show him I could do it!”答案：1.lucky 2. best 3. crying 4. miss 5. and 6. amazed7. ran 8. quietly 9. but 10. games挑战级(一)Date: 23rd MarchSubject: The Riding for the Disabled AssociationHi Christine,Sorry I haven’t emailed lately —I’ve been very busy since becoming a volunteer for the Riding for the Disabled Association.Every Saturday, I help to get the horses ___1___ for the disabled(残疾) riders. Many more disabled people want to ride ___2___ than you’d imagine. It’s a disadvantage that I don’t know how to ride —I’d love to got on long rides with the riders—but I’ll learn soon ___3___. Right now, I’m just happy to be able to lead the horses around for the disabled riders.I’m ___4___ helping to organize a sale, which will be ___5___ next month. It’s a lot more work than helping the disabled. I need to collect second-hand things to sell at the sale. There are___6___ things available(获得的) than I thought, but I’m sure we’ll have enough ___7___ next month.I hope the sale raises more money than last month’s walk. It was rainy, so too few people took part in the event. Last week, we held an auction(拍卖). The auction took much less ___8___ to organize than the walk. ___9___, for some reason, people offered too little money for the things, so we didn’t raise enough money.I’m ___10___ you some pictures in the letter, as well as a speech I gave last week.Robin答案：1. ready 2. horses 3. enough 4. also 5. held 6. fewer7. by 8. time 9. However 10. sendingholiday—the first ___3___ of the New Year. It is the last night of the old year, however, that people celebrate the most.Almost everyone is ___4___ to a party. It is nice to be with ___5___ when you say goodbye to the old year. The people at the parties ___6___ dancing and singing. Most of them look ___7___ . They are wearing paper hats ___8___ making noise. It is ___9___ close to midnight now and everyone is stopping to watch the clock. At exactly midnight everyone cheers. A new year is beginning. Everyone is hoping ___10___ a very good new Year.For many young ___11___ , like my English ___12___ son and daughter, this is a time of the year to think about the future. They make a list ___13___ things that they hope to do. They promise to stop smoking, to lose weight, to save ___14___ money or to do something else that is good. They call these promises resolutions (决心做的事). Some people remember their resolutions all year long, ___15___ many others forget them.答案：1. does 2. week 3. day 4. asked 5. friends 6. are7. happy 8. and 9. getting 10. for 11. Americans12. teacher's 13. of 14. their 15. but(Naming the BabyParents always think their babies are very special. They want others to ___1___ their children. For this reason, they sometimes give their children unusual ___2___. They may choose names such as Chelma, Ukiah, Brianna, or Elvira. There are some advantages to this practice. A child who is ___3___ an uncommon name may feel special from childhood. ___4___, sometimes we remember people with unusual names ___5___ than we remember people with ordinary names.___6___, unusual names can cause problems. They can be hard for teachers and friends to pronounce. They can also be hard to spell, ___7___ computers may automatically(自动地) change them. For example, Jule may become July. Some people may have a bad impression on an unusual name ___8___ they even meet the person. ___9___ of all, other children sometimes don’t like kids with uncommon names. The message for parents is, “Think ___10___ before you give your child an unusual name.”答案：1. notice 2. names 3. given 4. Also 5. better 6. However 7. and。