八年级下英语综合能力提升训练3.docVIP

八年级下英语综合能力提升训练（三） 一、根据首字母填空 1. While travelling in Russia, Ed Jackson ran short of money. So he wrote t________ his brother, asking for ＄500. “Send the m by telegram to the bank here,” he wrote. After a week Ed began v the bank. He s his passport to the bank clerk 职员 . “Nothing has come for you, Mr. Jackson,” he was told. This went o for three weeks, and Mr. Jackson got very w . He then phoned his brother, asking w the money was. The brother said it had been sent three weeks b . That evening Ed Jackson was arrested 被捕 for failing to p his hotel bill. He tried to tell the police what his problem was, but no one would believe him. At last he was s to the police station for fifteen days. 2. Once there was a king. He liked to write s . He thought his stories were good, so he liked to show them to his people. As his people were afraid to criticize 批评 the king’s stories, they all said that his stories were very good. One day, the king showed some of his best stories to a famous writer. He wanted the writer to praise 表扬 those stories. But the writer said his stories were so b that he should throw them into the fire. The king got very angry w ___ him and sent him to prison 监狱 . After s time the king had pity on the writer and set him free. When the writer returned from prison, the king ordered him to come to his palace. Again he showed him some of his new stories and asked him what he thought of them. After r them, the writer at once turned to the soldier and said, “Take me back to prison, please.” 二、完形填空 Have you ever planted some trees on Tree Planting Day? Every year, millions of people, both 1 , plant a lot of trees. But this may not be the best way to make our home a 2 place. Last week we visited a city in Hebei. We were all 3 to see a lot of trees burning near the hills. We drove there and asked why, the workers there told us that the trees 4 soon after they were planted. 5 they burned them and cleaned the place for planting 6 trees this year. We found