第11课时 八年级下册 Units 7～8
一、单项选择
1．—Do you know what the of Dongying is?
—About 2.1 million.
A．population B．preparation
C．possible D．progress
2．Our government has made laws to protect endangered animals being killed.
A．by B．of C．from D．as
3．Sam is doing some about the ancient Silk Road.
A．exercise B．operations
C．research D．experiments
4．Listening to light music is one of ways to relax yourself when you feel tired.
A．the more helpful B．more helpful
C．the most helpful D．the helpful
5．To produce better products, the company has spent a lot of money this new kind of machine.
A．introducing B．managing
C．instructing D．changing
6．We many English songs since we came here.
A．learn B．will learn
C．learnt D．have learnt
7．Dreams are beautiful. However, to them needs lots of time and work.
A．discover B．find C．achieve D．stop
8．—What do you think of the speech given by Chairman Xi Jinping in the UN?
—It's very exciting. His speech succeeded in foreign friends' appreciation.
A．get B．getting C．got D．to get
9．There are many different kinds of 凶猛的) in the zoo. animals which are very fierce(
A．clever B．wild C．ugly D．lovely
10．— you A Bite of China Ⅲ recently?
—Of course. I do believe Chinese food is the most delicious in the world.
A．Have; watched B．Will; watch
C．Were; watching D．Do; watch
二、完形填空
The Power of Determination(决心)
The little country schoolhouse was heated by an old coal stove(火炉). A little boy had the job of coming to school early each day to start the 1 and warm the room before his teacher and his classmates got there.
One morning they 2 to find the schoolhouse burning. They dragged(拖) the little boy out of the building more dead than alive. Then he was 3 taken to a nearby county hospital.
The doctor told the boy's mother that 4 the lower part of his body was seriously burnt, he couldn't use his legs anymore. However, the 5 boy made up his mind that he would walk. Unluckily his thin legs 6 hung there, all but lifeless.
Finally he returned home from the 7 . Every day his mother would press his little legs, but there was no feeling, no control, 8 . Yet his determination that he would walk was as 9 as ever.
When he wasn't in bed, he would sit in a wheelchair. One sunny day his mother wheeled him out into the yard to get some fresh air. This day, instead of sitting there, he 10 himself from the chair and pulled himself across the grass, dragging his 11 behind him.
He worked his way to the white fence(栅栏) around the yard. With great effort, he raised himself up on the fence. Then, he began dragging himself along the fence, 12 that he would walk. He started to do this every day. There was nothing he 13 more than to develop life in those legs.
In the end, through his determination he did 14 . Gradually he began to walk to school, then to run to school, to run 15 the joy of running. Later in college he made the running team.
