牛津译林版2017-2018学年8A英语期末专题练习首字母填空 姓名 得分 (1)There is nothing more i 1 to life than the sun. W 2 the sun, all living things on the earth would die. The sun is a star. In the sky there are t 3 of stars like the sun. They are as large as the sun and as hot as the sun. At night you can see many stars, but in the daytime you can o 4 see one star - the sun.The sun is much n 5 to us than the other stars. That is w 6 it looks the biggest and brightest of all the stars. The distance (距离) of the sun from the earth is as m 7 as 150,000,000 kilometers. Most stars are thousands of light-years a 8 from the earth.Do you know what a light-year is? N 9 in the world travels faster than light. It travels 300,000 kilometers per second. And one light-year is the distance that light can travel in one y 10 . 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. (2)Learning English is not an easy job. Almost every student sometimes asks q_1_ like these: Can I really learn English well? Can I really learn it well e _2_ to talk with others?The answer is yes. From some studies we know that almost anyone can learn a foreign language w_3_ if he or she wants to. Some people might learn it f_4_ and some might learn it slower. Some might learn it easily and some with difficulty. But anyone can learn it well if he or she has the right ways.Many students have their own special ways in l_5_English. The following are some examples.Han Mei gets up early every morning and the first thing she does is to l_6_ to an English radio program(节目). This has really helped improve her English in listening.Lin Tao often practises speaking English in c_7_. At first he was very nervous when he was asked to speak. After trying several times, he found it was not as d_8_ as he thought. He is more active and now he speaks English b_9_ of all his classmates.Wang Bin likes to watch American movies. He will watch it many times i_10_ it is a good film. And he also likes to read English aloud. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. (3)At first I felt a slight shake. Then I heard a l 1 noise like thunder. Soon the real noise came, like bombs under the ground. The earth started to shake. People screamed in f 2 . Some ran out of the building. I tried my best to run out too, but I could not. Outside, people were running in all d 3 while piece of glass and bricks were f 4 down. Then the walls began to .c 5 down too!Finally, the noise and shaking ended. It was dark and s 6 around me. I couldnt see anything at a 7 , and I did not know i 8 anyone else was near me. I felt nervous and my h 9 was beating fast. “Im trapped,” I said to m 10 . 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. (4)My classmate Amy wrote a letter to the chairperson of the Birdwatching Society. Shed like to join the Birdwatching Society. Here is what she writes in her letter.First, she introduce h 1 . She is a Grade 8 student at Sunshine Middle School. Her favouirte s 2 is biology. She is very interested in learning about different k 3 of plants, birds and animals. She enjoys the n 4 world and loves the nature very much. She would like to become a m 5 of the Birdwatching Society. She wants to know more a 6 birds and she thinks it is more important to do something to p 7 them. She can take p 8 in activities from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays.She asks them to c 9 her on 010-5558 6390 or e 10 her at amysunshine.com.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. (5)Reading newspapers has become an important part of everyday life. Some people read newspapers a 1 the first thing to do in the morning; others read newspapers as soon as they have free time during the day so that they can learn what is h 2 in the world. Sometimes, we are too b 3 to read all the news carefully, so we just take a quick look at the front page. At other times, we may be in such a hurry that we o 4 have a few minutes to look at the names of the passages.We can find newspapers e 5 in the world. We can get many different kinds of newspapers in big cities, but in some mountain v 6 we can see few newspapers. Some newspapers are published(出版) once a week, but most of the papers are published once a day w 7 many pages, some even published twice a day. You know dif